Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program [video...

US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , said Tuesday that a top intelligence official had been prepared to brief the committee in December on the Bush administration's...

Chilean judge Orlando Alvarez on Tuesday refused to release former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from custody while the judge considers an extradition request for Fujimori . The decision means Fujimori, who is being...

Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, US Supreme Court, February 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act at Work 1982-2005, National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, February 21, 2006 . Excerpt:In short,...

Zumpano v. Quinn, New York Court of Appeals, February 21, 2006 .Read the full text of...

MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, Supreme Court of Oregon, February 21, 2006 [ruling requiring the state government to either provide compensation to landowners for reductions of property value caused by certain land use regulations or not to apply such...

The New York State Court of Appeals ruled 5-2 Tuesday that an illegal immigrant's status as an undocumented worker does not preclude his ability to recover lost earnings. Illegal immigrant Gorgonio Balbuena was injured at...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has said that the state of California has decided to postpone indefinitely the execution of condemned killer Michael Morales , initially delayed late Monday after two anesthesiologists refused to take part...

In Tuesday's environmental news, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases that challenge the limits of the Clean Water Act (CWA) . The court heard consolidated arguments in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell...