Lozano v. City of Hazelton, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, October 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Petition Under Section 115, US Clean Air Act, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, November 1, 2006 . Read the full text of the petition. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for its alleged harassment of five US citizens of Mexican descent during an illegal immigration shakedown in Georgia over Labor Day weekend. The civil rights group claims ICE violated the citizens' Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights [...]

In the first US case of its kind, a Georgia state court Wednesday found Ethiopian immigrant Khalid Adem guilty of sexually mutilating his then-two-year-old daughter and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Adem was tried on charges of cruelty to children and aggravated battery after a doctor discovered Adem's daughter had her clitoris removed, [...]

The Sierra Legal Defence Fund petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday on behalf of thirteen Canadian cities – including Toronto, Windsor and Halifax – to mandate the reduction of air pollution from 150 coal-fired power plants in the US. The petition asks the EPA to direct a reduction of carbon dioxide and other gas [...]

A Turkish trial court on Wednesday ruled that retired archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig violated no criminal law by writing historical accounts of headscarves that offended some Muslims. Cig faced up to 1 1/2 years' imprisonment for insulting religion by postulating in her book that headscarves were originally worn before the founding of Islam by ancient [...]

US Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim said Tuesday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is working with states missing deadlines to update voting databases and equipment under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 before mid-term elections on November 7. The DOJ has already sued 17 jurisdictions, including the states of Alabama, Maine, [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. , 05-848, where the justices are considering a challenge to modifications to coal-fired power plants made by Duke Energy that allow the plants to run longer each day, increasing the amount of emissions, but not affecting the rate. According to [...]

Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has signed an order allowing Guatemala to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo so that he can face charges of embezzlement for alleged misuse of defense department funds during his presidency, Mexican officials said Tuesday. The charges allege that officials tied to Portillo pocketed most of the $15 million [...]

A British court Wednesday ordered the release of two brothers charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up commercial planes flying from Great Britain to the US in August. In a hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court , District Judge Quentin Purdy freed Umair Hussain and Mehran Hussain , saying there [...]