The Libyan Supreme Court Tuesday postponed its verdict until January 31 for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had received death sentences following their convictions for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus [JURIST...

Major US media organization Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of the Wall Street Journal and other publications, on Monday challenged efforts by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to keep documents secret in the CIA leak case...

The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order...

Hate Crimes Statistics Report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, November 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the FBI report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

French President Jacques Chirac Monday delivered his first televised address since a recent surge of violence began in France nineteen days ago, promising that justice would be meted out...

In a report released Monday, the US Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) characterized the Federal Drug Administration's review of the birth control drug Plan B for over-the-counter sale as "unusual" in...

Schaffer v. Weast, Supreme Court of the United States, November 14 2005. Excerpt:When we are determining the burden of...

European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs Franco Frattini said Monday that although the informal EU investigation into the alleged existence of secret US prisons in European Union nations has revealed...

Human Rights Report, UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) . Read the full...

Racial animus accounted for more than half of the 7,649 hate crimes reported in the United States in 2004, a 5 percent rise from 2003, according to the FBI's annual FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report . Overall,...