The US Supreme Court on Wednesday held that a police search of a couple's home, where one resident gave permission for the search but the other resident "unequivocally refused to give consent", is unconstitutional...
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Supreme Court limits police searches in third-party consent cases
Annan calls for mixed tribunal to try Hariri assassination suspects
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New Hampshire rejects gun use in public self-defense, but bill advances in Georgia
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Russia seeks UN briefing on Hague jail conditions prior to Milosevic death
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Liberia president seeks decision from African leaders on Taylor trial
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Protests continue in Belarus over alleged fraud in Lukashenko re-election
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UK terror trial of seven gets under way
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UK government may revive proposal for 90-day terror detentions without charge
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Asylum seeker indefinite detention ruling [9th Circuit]
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Anticipatory warrants ruling [US SC]
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As preparations continue to establish a tribunal to prosecute those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday said that a mixed tribunal, with both international and...
The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Tuesday voted down a bill that would have broadened the right to use deadly force in self defense when in public by a margin of 194-138. The...
Russian diplomat Konstantin Dolgov has requested a UN briefing on conditions in UN detention facilities following the recent deaths of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb Milan Babic . Dolgov also asked Tuesday...
In an effort to bring closure to the contentious issue of the fate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Tuesday called on African leaders to decide whether to place Taylor...
For the fourth day in a row, hundreds of protestors gathered at a central square in Minsk on Wednesday to oppose what they claimed were the rigged results of the Belarus presidential election, defying...
The largest UK trial of terrorism suspects since al Qaeda's September 11 attacks on the United States got under way in London's Old Bailey Tuesday with seven British men facing charges of planning bombings in Britain in retaliation...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke told a UK Commons committee Tuesday that he has not given up on the option of detaining suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge, and may introduce additional legislation...
Nadarajah v. Gonzales, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, March 17, 2006 . Read the full...
United States v. Grubbs, Supreme Court of the United States, March 21, 2006 . Excerpt:Because the Fourth Amendment does not require that the triggering...
