Members of the professional association of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club demonstrated in Cairo Friday, calling for greater judicial independence in Egypt and denouncing the government's order to interrogate six judges who were stripped of judicial immunity after speaking out against December parliamentary election results they claimed were tainted by fraud. About 1,000 [...]

Lawyers representing victims of the 9/11 attacks said Friday that Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla J. Martin, alleged to have coached witnesses and disclosed part of the government's case in violation of a sequestration order in the trial against Zacarias Moussaoui , did so to ensure that witness statements did not undermine the defense strategy [...]

Kinderstart.com , a directory and search engine focused on children zero to seven, filed suit against Google Friday in federal court in San Jose, accusing the high-profile search engine of unexpectedly dropping the site's search rank, leading to a 70 percent fall in page views and an 80 percent fall in ad revenue for Kinderstart. [...]

New York v. EPA, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, March 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot exempt coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities from a requirement to install new pollution controls to keep up with emissions changes. A rule creating an exemption under the so-called New Source Review permitting program was adopted by [...]

Order granting in part and denying in part motion by USA for Reconsideration of the Court's Order Striking All Aviation Evidence in this Case as to Zacarias Moussaoui, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, March 17, 2006. Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The UK Home Office Friday presented oral arguments before the UK High Court in its appeal of the Court’s December decision to require the British government to register Guantanamo detainee David Hicks as a British citizen. A decision is expected in early April. Hicks, an Australian detained in US custody at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 [...]

A group of 27 Danish Muslim organizations plan to sue Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in a Danish court and file a complaint against Denmark with the UN Commission on Human Rights over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Jyllands-Posten and other European newspapers. Group lawyer Michael Christiani Havemann told AP Friday the group [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo Friday sent Thomas Lubanga , leader of the ethnic militia-turned-political party Union of Congolese Patriots , to the International Criminal Court (ICC) , making him the first prisoner delivered to new international criminal tribunal in The Hague. Lubanga is accused of widespread human rights abuses in eastern Congo’s Ituri district [...]

The number of asylum applications submitted to industrialized countries has decreased for the fourth year in a row and the number of asylum seekers arriving in Western nations has plummeted by half in the last five years , according to statistics released Friday by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) . UN High Commissioner [...]