Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of Governor Sonny Perdue , asking the court to overturn a lower court judge's Friday decision to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of a law requiring Georgia voters to produce photo identification cards. In [...]

The British government is sending Home Office minister Baroness Scotland to the US on Thursday to push for US ratification of the treaty aligning extradition requests between the two nations, which the UK has already ratified. Under the UK Extradition Act 2003 which enshrines the treaty in British law, three British bankers wanted in the [...]

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has asked Mexico's Federal Electoral Court to order a manual recount of returns from the July 2 presidential election, which conservative Felipe Calderon won by just 0.6 percent. Lopez Obrador turned over to the court nine boxes of evidence of alleged fraud and dirty campaign practices relating [...]

Saddam Hussein, along with several co-defendants and defense lawyers, boycotted trial proceedings Monday at the Iraq High Tribunal as the defense was scheduled to begin closing arguments. The court did hear from a lawyer for defendant Ali Dayih Ali, but Hussein sent a letter to the court saying "the tribunal is lacking in all procedures [...]

Cyrus Kar , the Los Angeles-based filmmaker of Iranian descent and US Navy veteran detained by US forces in Iraq for 55 days, has sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other top military officials in the US District Court for the Central District of California . Kar argues that his detention in Iraq, which [...]

The trial of six men accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, including former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic , began at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday. Milutinovic and his five co-defendants – former Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic , former Yugoslav army chiefs of staff Dragoljub Ojdanic and Nebojsa Pavkovic, [...]

AP is reporting that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage can be placed on the ballot for voter approval, if the amendment is approved by the state legislature. Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003, when the Supreme [...]

The first federal trial relating to insurance coverage for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina begins Monday in Gulfport, Mississippi. In the lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company , a Mississippi homeowner is disputing the insurance company's decision not to cover his property damage claim. Nationwide denied the claim because it contends the damage was [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric M. Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Hudson v. Michigan is a warning that the Fourth Amendment may be on the verge of a judicial trivialization contrary to the interests of democracy… There is a widely-circulated poster which viewed from a [...]

US Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , said that the Bush administration may have violated the law by failing to brief the committee on intelligence activities, in a May 18 letter to President Bush that was first disclosed in the New York Times Saturday. In his letter to President [...]