Executive order on protection of property rights, President George W. Bush, June 23, 2006 [directing that US federal agencies and government departments may not seize private property unless the taking is for public use "and not merely for the purpose...

US v. Batiste, et al, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, June 22, 2006 [indictment charging seven defendants who allegedly plotted to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami with conspiring...

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, UN General Assembly, June 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the Optional Protocol....

Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, June 22, 2006 . Read the Court's 8-1 majority opinion ...

Whitaker, et al v. Perdue, et al [lawsuit filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights arguing that a new Georgia law designed to protect children from sex crimes all but forbids convicted offenders from living in urban and suburban...

Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 [contending that based on the "meager" information released by the government regarding the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees...

A Review of the FBI's Handling Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, released June 2006 [noting "numerous systemic problems" during the FBI's investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the...

Documents regarding US treatment of detainees, US Department of Defense, released to the public by the ACLU on June 19, 2006 pursuant to a FOIA request. Read the full text of the documents. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and...

Samson v. California, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Fourth Amendment does not prevent police officers from routinely searching parolees even when the search is not based on suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, but instead...

Rapanos v. US & Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of...