A Jordanian court on Tuesday convicted the editors of two national newspapers and sentenced them to two months' imprisonment for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that incited protests and violence across the Muslim world earlier...

European Parliament v. Council of the European Union, European Court of Justice, May 30, 2006 [ruling that an agreement between the European Union and the US that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the...

Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, signed by President George W. Bush, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice argued in a federal court filing Tuesday that the government has no legal obligation to return documents seized by the FBI from the office of Rep. William Jefferson...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said Tuesday that the Iraqi government will launch its own probe into the allegations that US Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians and militants in the city of Haditha in November 2005....

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to fast-track the state's appeal of a lower court ruling striking down a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Oral arguments are...

An appeals court in Uzbekistan on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison term for human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva , even though prosecutors had recommended a more lenient sentence. Tojiboyeva, a prominent critic of Uzbekistan President...

Ireland broke European law by asking the United Nations to arbitrate its claim against the United Kingdom in respect of the Sellafield nuclear power plant , an EU court ruled Tuesday....

The criminal justice system in Kosovo is failing, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday in a report focusing on the criminal justice response to renewed violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians...

AP is reporting that a jury in Rockville, Md. has convicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad of six counts of murder. The jurors heard four weeks of testimony in the trial, in which Muhammad...