China's State Council Thursday responded to US State Department human rights reports issued Monday that had blasted China for human rights abuses by issuing a report of its own on US human rights practices highlighting abuses...

One of France's biggest-ever criminal trials got under way Thursday as sixty-six people led by two former sex offenders stood accused of participating in a pedophilia ring in which children and babies were...

Saddam Hussein chief lawyer Ziad al-Khasawneh said Thursday that the upcoming trial of his client should be delayed in the wake of the murder this week of a judge appointed to the Iraqi tribunal charged with hearing the case...

The GOP-dominated Senate Wednesday pushed ahead proposed bankruptcy overhaul legislation by defeating a series of Democratic amendments that would have sheltered seniors and sick people. Senators voted 59-40 to reject an amendment which would...

Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund v. US Department of Agriculture, United States District Court for the District of Montana, Judge Richard Cebull, March 2, 2005 [granting a preliminary injunction against re-opening the US border to cattle imports from Canada, which...

The US House of Representatives late Wednesday approved a job-training bill that would allow faith-based organizations which receive federal funds to consider the religious beliefs of prospective employees. The vote on HR 27, the Job Training Improvement...

An Indonesian court Thursday found radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir guilty of conspiracy to commit the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. The five-judge panel found that although Ba'asyir was not directly...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, March 3.The US Senate will convene at 9:30 AM ET today, and it will consider S.J.Res. 4 , expressing disapproval...

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2004, International Narcotics Control Board , March 2, 2004 [saying that drug trafficking in Afghanistan is threatening to undermine the rule of law and democracy in the country, and could also threaten...

Queen v. Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal , Lord Justice Brooke, March 2, 2005 [ruling that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab,...