US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker issued an order Tuesday imposing a limited stay on discovery in a class action lawsuit challenging the legality of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Wednesday, including Wallace v. Kato , where the Court held that the two-year statute of limitations for a false...

The number of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines is critically high, according to UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston , who on Wednesday reported on his 10-day investigation into the...

Seven Saudis formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after US authorities granted their release earlier this week. The Saudi Press Agency reported their return, and noted that Interior Minister Prince Nayef...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Iraq's leadership to postpone a decision on future control of the city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, citing concerns for the growth of a Kurdish insurgency...

US Army Sgt. Paul E. Cortez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area last March. Cortez reached...

The French Cour de Cassation appeals court ruled Tuesday that French law precluded a woman from legally adopting her lesbian partner's biological child, who was conceived through artificial insemination. The court held that such adoption...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Claiborne v. United States , a case that could impact sentencing guidelines across the country. Mario Claiborne was...

A Nigerian appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Vice President Atiku Abubakar could not legally be stripped of his office after his break with President Olusegun Obasanjo . The pair were elected in 1999 at the...

Boumediene v. Bush, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, February 20, 2006 [ruling that provisions in the Military Commissions Act stripping foreign nationals held as "enemy combatants" of the right to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions...