Case of Lebedev v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, October 25, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment....

Daniel Lee Siebert v. Richard Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, October 24, 2007 [staying the execution of an Alabama inmate pending the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in Baze v....

The High Administrative Court of Ukraine Thursday validated the results of the Sept. 30 parliamentary election after dismissing a legal challenge by the Communist Party of Ukraine contending the vote was invalid due...

The White House Thursday agreed to let US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) see classified documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST...

Two key Democrats on the US Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that their votes on the nomination of retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general will depend on Mukasey's stance on whether the interrogation technique...

Representatives in the US House of Representatives have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers...

The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday agreed to hear an appeal over the asserted right of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to see thousands of pages of Canadian government documents related to his...

The US Congress is taking steps to put all armed US contractors working in combat zones under the jurisdiction of the US military, according to Thursday reports. Earlier this month, the Senate included such a provision in its 2008...

The executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC) , said Thursday that the United States and Australia want to participate in negotiations for a new global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol [PDF...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered that his approval be obtained before any government minister or official from the president's office be charged with corruption, the chair of the US House Committee on Oversight...