Americans United for the Separation of Church and State et al. v. Prison Fellowship Ministries Inc. et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, December 3, 2007 [ruling that using taxpayer money to fund a faith-based treatment...

Protective Order #003, Protection of Identity of Witnesses, US v. Omar Ahmed Khadr, Judge Peter E. Brownback, US Military Commission, October 15, 2007 [order withholding the identities of prosecution witnesses in the military commission trial of Omar Khadr, publicly reported...

Canadian Council for Refugees et al. v. The Queen, Federal Court of Canada, November 29, 2007 [striking down a refugee agreement between Canada and the US, asserting that the US does not meet international refugee protection requirements or respect international...

US v. Thomas Kriesel Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . Read the full text of...

Ruling on the White House's Claims of Executive Privilege and Immunity Made in Response to Senate Judiciary Committee Subpoenas, US Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, November 29, 2007 [rejecting White House assertions of executive privilege in the ongoing congressional...

R (on the application of Countryside Alliance and others and others (Appellants)) v Her Majesty's Attorney General and another (Respondents), House of Lords, November 28, 2007 [upholding a controversial ban on hunting with hounds under the Hunting Act 2004 on...

Sawsaan Tabbaa et al. v. Michael Chertoff et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 26, 2007 [ruling that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by...

Aguilar et al. v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security et al., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, November 27, 2007 [upholding a district court dismissal of a lawsuit brought by...

Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan et al. v. Blackwater Worldwide, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, November 26, 2007 [complaint filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Iraqi civilians killed by Blackwater security guards...

Munir Malik , a former president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) who was taken into custody by police in the wake of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency , was reported...