Nepalese police on Saturday used tear gas to disperse protesters gathered to demand democratic reforms in the country after King Gyanendra seized power from the interim government last year. Many of Saturday's protesters threw stones...
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Nepal police break up pro-democracy protests
East Timor president delivers rights violations report to UN
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US officers say Iraq interrogation rules unclear in court-martial testimony
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Alito gives answers on abortion, precedent in final committee questionnaire
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Africa rights court judge nomination process slammed for lack of transparency
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Libby defense team seeks more documents from reporters
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Kennedy, Leahy introduce resolution on NSA domestic spying
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US bankruptcy judge grants final approval to United reorganization
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Western states ecoterrorism indictment [US DOJ]
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Maryland same-sex marriage law ruling [Baltimore City Circuit Ct.]
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In an attempt to help resolve the conflict surrounding Indonesia's annexation of East Timor , East Timor President Xanana Gusmao presented a report to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday detailing alleged...
Two US military intelligence officers testified on Friday in the court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. that the interrogation rules in place during the first months of the Iraq war were unclear and that...
US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Friday provided additional written answers to questions submitted by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his views of a variety of legal issues and...
The Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and People's Rights , an NGO based in South Africa, on Saturday criticized the process of nominating judges to the African Court on Human and Peoples'...
Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney indicted last October in the CIA leak case , said Friday they plan to subpoena journalists and news...
In anticipation of US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings next month, Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a proposed Senate resolution Friday, criticizing the...
US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff from the Northern District of Illinois signed off on the United Airlines reorganization plan Friday, in a move that will allow the airline to emerge from...
US v. Joseph Bibee et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, January 19, 2006 [indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western...
Gitanjali Deane and Lisa Polak et al. v. Frank Conoway et al., Judge M. Brooke Murdock, Baltimore City Circuit Court, January 20, 2006 [ruling against a 1973 Maryland state law that prohibits same-sex marriage, declaring that it subjects the plaintiff...
