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Michigan became the thirteenth US state to legalize marijuana for medicinal use Tuesday after voters passed Proposition 1 by 63 percent to 37 percent . The Michigan Medical Marijuana Act urged by the Michigan Coalition for...

Marc Rotenberg : "When the New York Times first reported in December 2005 that President Bush had undertaken electronic surveillance in the United States of U.S. citizens without court approval, EPIC immediately filed a Freedom of...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case of Wyeth v. Levine , in which the court will consider whether the drug labeling...

JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, who recently observed the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay for Human Rights Watch, says that the prosecution's argument in the case against Canadian national Omar Khadr...

Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday ruled that in order to be validly held as an "enemy combatants," Guantanamo Bay detainees ...

Farzana Hassan : "The Muslim Canadian Congress, in welcoming the decision of the Constitutional Court of Turkey to disallow the lifting of the ban on hijabs, viewed it as a significant triumph of secularism over repressive Islamist...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and serve neither our...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed Tuesday that the military prison at Guantanamo Bay would remain open for the duration of President George W. Bush's administration. The New York Times reported earlier in...

US President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a bill designed to further insulate federal inspectors general (IGs) from political interference. The Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 is the latest in a series of...

A judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy on Wednesday suspended the trial of 26 Americans and five former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition of...