The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) on Tuesday sued the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on behalf of 11 city residents and business owners over the city's tough new Illegal Immigration Relief Act . Last month, Hazleton voted to punish landlords and employers that [...]

Leonard v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, United States District Court of Mississippi Southern Division, August 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

An Act to preserve the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, California, by providing for the immediate acquisition of the memorial by the United States, signed by President George W. Bush, August 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A plan devised by Egyptian mediators calls for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas , Reuters reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source. Under the proposal, Israel would free as many as 600 Palestinians, including women and children, while Hamas would hand over Cpl. Gilad [...]

The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Tuesday that US tariffs on softwood lumber from Canada violate international trade rules. The appellate report reverses April's panel decision favoring the United States , which Canada appealed. The Appellate Body found that the US method of calculating the anti-dumping tariffs, known as zeroing, arrived [...]

A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Tuesday that Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company was not obligated to cover a policyholder's claims for water damage caused by Hurricane Katrina . The trial was the first resulting from hundreds of lawsuits against insurance companies that refused to pay for some Katrina-related damage. After an eight-day bench trial, Senior [...]

British authorities on Tuesday arrested another suspect in connection with last week's foiled terror plot to blow up jetliners headed for various airports in the United States, bringing the number of arrested suspects up to 25. London's Metropolitan Police Service only disclosed that they had made an arrest in the Thames Valley, and did not [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now requiring passenger data to be sent to US authorities before flights leave Britain for the United States in the wake of last week's arrests for an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights , notwithstanding obstacles posed by European privacy laws. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni war shrine on the anniversary of the day when Emperor Hirohito surrendered World War II in 1945. The shrine honors all Japanese war dead, including war criminals, and Koizumi's visits to the shrine on previous occasions have not only angered neighboring China and South Korea [...]

The ruling military junta in Myanmar will resume negotiations for a new constitution this fall, Myanmar Ambassador to the Philippines Thaung Tun said Tuesday. Tun told journalists that the constitution is 75 percent complete, and that the parties have "agreed on the basic principles of the new constitution," which include a person in a presidential [...]