The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that Vermont civil union laws govern a child custody battle between a now-separated lesbian couple who were legally joined in a civil union in Vermont, despite conflicting decisions by Virginia courts. Lisa and Janet Miller-Jenkins lived in Virginia but traveled to Vermont to be joined in a civil union [...]

A US military prosecutor said in closing arguments at an Article 32 hearing Friday that four US soldiers should face court-martial for violating the laws of war by setting several Iraqi detainees free after a May 9 raid on a suspected insurgent camp near Samarra in Salahaddin province and then shooting them as they ran [...]

League of United Latin American Citizens, et. al. vs. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, et. al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, August 4, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

S & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 1157, August 4, 2006, Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A panel of three federal judges on Friday redrew Texas's 23rd Congressional District to "restore Latino voting strength" to the district in compliance with a June 2005 Supreme Court ruling. The new congressional map as drawn by judges from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas consolidates Webb County , placing the [...]

UN agencies working in Gaza joined Friday to urge respect for international humanitarian law and the obligation to protect civilians, reminding the international community in a joint statement not to forget the violence there while attention to the ongoing Middle East conflict is focused on Lebanon. Observing that since June 28, Palestinian troops and civilians [...]

Several former Burundi government officials who were arrested and detained on Tuesday are being abused in detention, according to family members of the detainees pleading for international attention on local radio broadcasts. The wife of former Vice President Alphonse Kadege said she saw police officers standing on her husband, and later, his arm was broken. [...]

The Verkhovna Rada , the Ukraine parliament, on Friday swore in 11 judges who will compose the Ukrainian Constitutional Court . Judges are nominated to the court by parliament, the president and by an association of judges. The judges were installed after parliament elected its share of judges, and the court now has enough judges [...]

Documents made public Thursday show the US government ordered the ACLU to censor copies of newspaper articles and several instances of unfavorable Supreme Court language that appeared in ACLU papers over the course of litigation involving the FBI and four Connecticut librarians who challenged a National Security Letter (NSL) they received last year. US Supreme [...]

The US Senate on Thursday ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime , which is intended to improve information- and evidence-sharing between national governments to prevent crimes on the Internet. The convention has been signed by 38 European countries along with Japan, Canada, and South Africa. The treaty will enter into force for the [...]