The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday ruled to remand a set of consolidated tort claims brought against military contractors in Iraq, holding that further factual development is necessary before determining whether...

California Deputy State Registrar and Chief of the Office of Vital Records Janet McKee issued a memorandum Wednesday setting June 17 as the start date for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The California Supreme...

Diplomats reached an agreement Wednesday on a draft treaty banning the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster munitions following ten days of negotiation at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions [official...

Draft treaty to ban the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster munitions as agreed at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, May 28, 2008. Read the full text of the draft treaty . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

PHS Community Services Society v. Attorney General of Canada, Supreme Court of British Columbia, May 27, 2008 [holding that Canadian laws on drug possession and trafficking are unconstitutional, and granting a one-year extension to Vancouver's "safe injection site" program for...

Amnesty International Report 2008: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, May 28, 2008 [condemning the US and other Western democratic states for their attempts to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights in their efforts to...

Human Rights Watch Wednesday sharply criticized Egypt's decision to extend the country's emergency laws for a further two year period, saying the move "shows contempt for the rule of law." Emergency...

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruled Tuesday that the law under which the former head of media advocacy NGO Educated Media Foundation (EMF) was charged in 2007 was unconstitutionally vague , requiring...

A group of 35 members of anti-war activism organization Witness Against Torture appeared in a DC Superior Court Tuesday. The 35 were arrested at a protest in front of the US Supreme Court in January,...

Terrorism cases should be tried in the US federal criminal court system , rather than by military tribunals or special terrorism courts, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights...