The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Thursday, including Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales , where the Court held that a federal immigration law authorizing deportation can be applied to...

A federal watchdog charged with overseeing California prison reform has released a report saying that an abrupt reversal in policy by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) prompted two secretaries of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...

Canadian legal observers expressed concern Thursday that a new ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada will open courts to a flood of divorce litigation revolving around allegations of spousal misconduct, despite the terms of the 1985...

Members of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations promised to crack down on data brokers who gather private information after hearing testimony Wednesday from a former data broker who told...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan revoke recent National Security Directorate rules that restrict the freedom of the press and effectively ban journalists from writing about Afghanistan's failing security situation. Afghan journalists...

An investigation into the death of 24 Iraqi civilians last November in Haditha focusing on whether senior military personnel covered up the deaths reportedly found several failures to follow up by Marine commanders, but no deliberate cover...

Whitaker, et al v. Perdue, et al [lawsuit filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights arguing that a new Georgia law designed to protect children from sex crimes all but forbids convicted offenders from living in urban and suburban...

Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 [contending that based on the "meager" information released by the government regarding the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees...

The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor could begin as early as January, Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) officials said Wednesday. Taylor, who was transferred from...

Former Computer Associates senior vice president Thomas Bennett pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of obstruction of justice for his role in the company’s revenue-swapping of $2.2 billion with another company in 1999 and 2000. Bennett, who faces...