Zedner v. United States, June 5, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion per Justice Alito, along with a concurrence from Justice Scalia.

Anza v. Ideal Steel Corp., June 5, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion by Justice Kennedy along with a concurrence from Justice Scalia, a partial dissent from Justice Thomas and a second partial dissent from Justice Breyer.

A ban on assault weapons in the city of Denver was affirmed by operation of law on Monday when the Colorado Supreme Court deadlocked in a 3-3 vote with one judge abstaining on whether to overturn the decisions in two lower court cases that had upheld the ban. The state enacted two laws in 2003 [...]

A lawyer for terror suspect Jose Padilla has filed a motion to suppress evidence he claims the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained illegally from two sources, one which alleges torture after US rendition to Morocco and another who may have been heavily medicated during interrogation. According to the motion filed last week, Padilla requests [...]

Allegations that members of the US military killed civilians in Iraq should be investigated by the United Nations and an Iraqi-US committee, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said Monday. Al-Hashimi, a Sunni, described the allegations, along with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal , as part of a pattern of human rights violations by occupation forces. [...]

President Bush Monday denounced "activist judges" who have struck down state laws banning same-sex marriage as he urged Congress to approve the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. At a White House event, Bush said : Some argue that defining marriage should be left to the [...]

Serbian members of parliament declared Serbia a sovereign nation Monday, two days after the parliament of Montenegro proclaimed its own independence from the former Serbia-Montenegro union. The breakup marks the final dissolution of what remained of the post-WWII Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , now divided into six successor states (the others being Bosnia and Herzegovina, [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in a case that will decide how much public schools can consider race in public school admissions assignments. The Court will hear appeals in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District , and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education . In Parents, the Ninth [...]

A Baghdad court has convicted one man but acquitted two others in connection with the abduction and murder of Margaret Hassan , the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Iraq in 2004 . Mustafa Salman, charged with aiding and abetting the kidnappers after Hassan's purse and identification papers were found in his home, was sentenced to [...]

Several activist groups have sued the attorney general of Indonesia for dropping corruption charges against former President Suharto . Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh dismissed the charges last month because of the former dictator's health. The lawsuits — filed by the Indonesian Association of Legal Attorneys and Human Rights Counselors, the Advocacy Team for the [...]