John Doe, American Civil Liberties Union, and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, v. Alberto Gonzales, Robert Mueller, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, September 6, 2007 [ruling that national security letters demanding private information...

Tunisian officials have been mistreating and abusing two former Guantanamo Bay detainees since their release from the US prison facility in June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. The report alleges...

The Supreme Court of Louisiana ruled 4-3 Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a hospital negligently failed to provide emergency power to sustain life support systems or implement an adequate evacuation plan could proceed without...

The Secretary of the Navy on Wednesday handed down letters of censure to three US Marine officers for improper performance of duties related to the reporting and investigation of the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday said that he will appoint judges to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon as soon as sufficient funding for the tribunal is in place by the end of 2007. The secretary-general...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Legal Counsel, and the office of the Attorney General to submit more information to the court in support of their motion...

US District Judge William Hoeveler temporarily blocked the French extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Wednesday to give Noriega's lawyers time to argue that his rights will not be fully protected in France....

An Australian government solicitor Wednesday filed an appeal contesting last month's Federal Court of Australia decision to reinstate the work visa of Dr. Mohammad Haneef , who was detained by Australian authorities...

An anchoring and fastening product manufacturer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the July 10, 2006 ceiling panel collapse in Boston's $15 billion Big Dig tunnel project that killed one person....

Israel's justice minister has dropped language from a proposed amendment to the nation's inheritance law that would define common law marriage to be between a man and a woman, according to a statement made to the Association for Civil...