The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Tuesday, including Medellin v. Texas , where the Court ruled that President Bush does not have the authority to direct a state court to comply with a ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Jose Ernesto Medellin , a Mexican national sentenced to death [...]

American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process at Guantanamo Bay : The defendants are charged with horrific crimes — assisting in the September 11 terror attacks. [...]

An city official with Farmers Branch, Texas said Monday that city officials have accidentally issued several city rental license applications designed to enforce an anti-immigration measure , sending out the applications requiring landlords to verify the legal residency of prospective tenants. Opponents of the measure, who have obtained a temporary restraining order against its enforcement, [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Riley v. Kennedy , 07-77, a voting rights case where the Court is considering whether the state of Alabama and Alabama Governor Bob Riley must seek federal government approval in order to appoint a Republican to a vacant county commission seat in a primarily black, Democratic [...]

The Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday sentenced seven members of the banned National Bolshevik Party to prison for "armed hooliganism." The sentences ranged from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years. The charges stem from an April 2006 protest outside the Tagansky District Court, in which Bolshevik demonstrators clashed with pro-Kremlin youth while the [...]

US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California Monday sentenced former Chinese-American engineer Chi Mak to over 24 years in prison for conspiring to commit espionage, attempting to violate export control laws, failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, and making false statements to federal agents. Mak went [...]

Officials from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) made a formal request to the United Nations Monday for $114 million in additional funds to allow the court to continue operation past its originally scheduled completion date in 2009 until March 2011. An ECCC planning document reported by AP last month indicated the [...]

Nepalese police arrested at least 400 Tibetan exiles, monks, and other protesters near the Nepalese UN headquarters in Kathmandu Monday as demonstrations continued against China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . Police reported that an additional 155 arrests were made near governmental offices in Singhadurbar. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear two cases , including US v. Hayes (07-608) , in which the Court will consider whether a federal law banning the possession of firearms by anyone convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" would bar a man convicted of "general battery" against his wife from owning [...]

US District Judge Stefan Underhill of the District of Connecticut has ruled that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of certain portions of Connecticut's campaign finance law could proceed. Connecticut's Green Party, Libertarian Party, and American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in July 2006, arguing that the law made it impossible for minor party candidates [...]