The Florida Supreme Court plans to analyze newly proposed rules that would stop the practice of sealing certain court cases from public view in a system that Chief Justice Fred Lewis said has "gone awry"...
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An Indonesian court Thursday sentenced Islamic militant Dwi Widiarto to 18 years in prison for his part in the October 2005 bombings of three restaurants in Bali which killed 26 people. Widiarto was charged with videotaping the...
Amnesty International on Thursday criticized Colombia for allowing attacks on human rights defenders, calling on the international community to provide more support for local activists in Colombia . In a new report ...
Rights activists on Thursday called for more information from the US government regarding secret CIA prisons where high-value terror suspects have been detained, saying that though US President George Bush's acknowledgement Wednesday of the prisons' existence was...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vetoed the Free Curriculum Act , a bill designed to add protections against discrimination in schools by prohibiting teaching or textbooks that "reflect adversely" on students based on their sexual...
The US Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday requesting US District Judge Simeon T. Lake III defer a ruling on vacating the criminal record of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay [Houston Chronicle...
US District Court Judge Ewing Werlein has set either February 5 or September 4, 2007 as the trial date for three former British bankers , known as the Natwest Three, who face fraud charges related to the...
An amendment to the FY 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations bill which would prohibit the US military from using cluster bombs in proximity to civilians was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 70-30 [roll...
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Wednesday that negotiations in Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform will be streamlined to focus on border security and worksite enforcement. Both houses of Congress have...
Military Commissions Act of 2006, White House, September 6, 2006 . Read the full text of proposed...
