California's Fourth District Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday to determine whether physicians can refuse to provide fertility treatments to a homosexual women based upon their religious beliefs. In a case expected to eventually be heard by the Supreme...

US officials outlined procedures for the upcoming trial of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a special background briefing at the State Department Tuesday. The officials, speaking "on background" because the trial is an Iraqi process...

Human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Wednesday called on US federal and state lawmakers to change mandatory sentencing schemes under which thousands of juvenile prisoners face the prospect of life sentences without parole. A new joint...

In his first media briefing, incoming UK lord chief justice Lord Phillips has warned the British government to back off pressuring the judiciary to enforce its own views of the law in terror-related or other cases. Speaking...

A Russian military court in the North Caucasus region has found two Russian soldiers not guilty of murdering three civilians during operations in the war-torn region of Chechnya . Interior Force officers Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergei Arakcheyev were...

A US congressional panel said Tuesday that China had made no significant progress in human rights or law reform over the past year despite announced efforts in those areas. The 2005 Annual Report of...

Lawyers for Republican members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court was uniformly unpopular among committee staffers, and that some questioning...

Former French UN ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee is expected to appear before a French judge Wednesday after having been detained by authorities investigating allegations of fraud and corruption in the UN Oil-for-Food program . Merimee was...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is set Wednesday to go back for a second round of testimony before a federal grand jury probing the 2003 leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame [JURIST...

Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the independence of judges and lawyers, August 31, 2005, released October 10, 2005 [assailing the independence of the Iraqi Special Tribunal and saying that US and UK anti-terror...