HB 1041, Women's Health Care, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill here. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

AFL-CIO v. Chao, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt:Because section 208 limits the Secretary's authority to promulgate rules...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that federal inmates in western states within its jurisdiction may challenge their sentences. The case, United States v. Ameline , follows the US Supreme Court ruling earlier this...

Chile's National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, known familiarly as the Valech Commission, released a new report Wednesday indicating that children under the age of 12 were tortured during the rule of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet...

A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks,...

US District Judge Tom S. Lee ruled Wednesday that Mississippi's law restricting abortions performed after the first-trimester violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The Jackson Women's Health Organization challenged a July 1, 2004 amendment to Mississippi Code § 41-75-1 ...

A day after President Bush dismissed as "absurd" an Amnesty International rights report condemning the US for ill-treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ...

An Italian court has sent five members of left-wing extremist group the Red Brigades to prison for life for involvement in the 2002 murder of Marco Biagi , an economic advisor to the government of Prime...

An exit poll announced on Dutch state television indicates that Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected the EU constitution 63 to 37 percent. AP has more.4:05 PM ET - BBC News has posted a Q &...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said today that two Dutch international aid workers affiliated should not have been arrested for allegedly falsifying a report on rape in Darfur . Paul Foreman and Vince...