The Miami Herald reported Saturday that state agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were actually en route to Terri Schiavo's hospice Thursday to take custody of her and transfer her to a facility where her feeding tube might be reconnected, but turned back after local Pinellas County police insisted that they would enforce [...]

Hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered Saturday in a massive rally and march through the streets of Taiwan's capital Taipei to voice their opposition to China's anti-secession law authorizing the potential use of force against Taiwan in order to achieve Chinese re-unification. Taiwan president President Chen Shui-bian and many members of his Democratic Progressive Party [...]

US Army documents released Friday suggest that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US military forces was more widespread than previously revealed. An Army investigative report from January 2004 reviewing events in 2003 concluded that at a detention facility near Mosul run by the 311th Military Intelligence Battalion of the Army's 101st Airborne Division guards were [...]

Lawyers for groups seeking to overturn California's new domestic partnership law argued their case in a state court Friday. The law went into effect January 1 and gives gay couples who register as domestic partners nearly every spousal right granted under state law including automatic parental status and responsibility for each others debts. Opponents claim [...]

NBC is reporting that in the face of last night's US Eleventh Circuit rejection of their latest appeal of a lower court ruling refusing an injunction that would authorize re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, lawyers for parents Bob and Mary Schindler have decided to abandon any further appeals in the federal courts. Schindler attorney [...]

Schiavo v. Schiavo, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, March 25, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights Annual Report 2004, UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, March 25, 2005 . Excerpt: We conclude that United States personnel appear to have committed grave violations of human rights of persons held in detention in various facilities in Iraq, Guantánamo Bay and Afghanistan. We recommend that the Government make it clear to the United [...]

NY Times v. City of NY Fire Department, et al., New York Court of Appeals, March 24, 2005 . Excerpt: This logic leads to the conclusion that all of the oral histories are discloseable under FOIL. We add one qualification, however, because we are given pause by the Fire Department's insistence that "the oral histories [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has for a second time in three days rejected an appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents to have her feeding tube re-inserted pending federal review of her case. The ruling this time was unanimous; in a separate concurrence, Judge Charles Wilson, the dissenter [...]

In a startling turn of events in the Schiavo case that could be taken as either revelation or desperation, attorneys for Terri Schiavo's parents argued at a late Friday emergency hearing by telephone with a Florida circuit court judge that she told them last Friday – after her feeding tube was removed – that she [...]