Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer Rouge leaders. It is not clear whether he and his wife fled their home to avoid prosecution or whether the former leader [...]

Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest illegal immigration measures in the country. The legislation will deny non-emergency state benefits to approximately 50,000 illegal immigrants currently receiving [...]

Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings. Hussein, along with several co-defendants and defense lawyers, on Monday boycotted trial proceedings at the Iraq High Tribunal as [...]

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according to Nikolai Patrushev , head of the FSB. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed relief that security forces killed Shamil Basayev , who was also responsible for a [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that while it's too early to abandon the troubled European constitution, significant strategic and political adjustments are required before it can secure ratification by enough states to bring it into force… Is the EU [...]

The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. The move marks a sharp reversal from a previous policy classifying detainees as "enemy combatants" outside the protections of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. The provision, often called [...]

In re: Search of the Rayburn House Office Building Room Number 2113, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 10, 2006 . Read the frull text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Schulman v. Attorney General, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, July 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US military on Monday released the identities of five Army soldiers charged in connection with the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and the murders of several of her relatives in March at Mahmudiya , 20 miles south of Baghdad. The soldiers and the charges against them are: Spc. James P. Barker – [...]

A three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday in six cases focusing on same-sex marriage – the first time a California appeals court has considered the issue. The state Attorney General's Office argued that California should be allowed to maintain its traditional definition of marriage as the union of a [...]