New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed into law Thursday legislation providing legal recognition to same-sex civil unions . The New Jersey Legislature passed the civil unions bill last week in response to an October New...
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Sandy Berger , President Clinton's National Security Adviser from 1997 to 2001, hid classified documents from the National Archives under a construction trailer while preparing himself, Clinton administration witnesses and documents for testimony before the 9/11...
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a case challenging California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage , after California Attorney General Bill Lockyer requested that the Court review an intermediate...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday approved new rules to prevent local governments from blocking the entrance of companies in the cable television market, highlighting a sharp partisan divide in the five-person panel....
Former US Attorney General and Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Ramsey Clark on Wednesday urged President Bush to keep Hussein and his Dujail trial co-defendants in US custody, expressing concern that...
Spain's High Court ruled Wednesday that it does not have jurisdiction to try former Argentinean naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo for crimes committed during Argentina's "dirty war" . Cavallo has been in Spanish custody since 2003...
The Indonesian Supreme Court overturned the conviction of militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir Thursday, saying only that the decision was based on the testimony of some 30 witnesses. A written decision has not yet been released. Bashir...
Coalition to defend affirmative action v. Granholm, US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, December 20, 2006 [ruling that the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University can delay until July 1, 2007...
The Russian State Duma approved a draft law Wednesday that would permanently move the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation from its current location in Moscow to the city of St. Petersburg, the former Russian...
An appeals court in Austria Wednesday ordered the release of British historian David Irving , who was sentenced to three years in jail in February for three counts of denying the...
