US District Judge James Ware of the US District Court for the Northern District of California heard arguments Tuesday on the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on state secrets grounds. The...

The corruption trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was halted Wednesday when the Dhaka High Court ruled that she could not be tried by a special court established under state of...

Opponents of a new anti-immigration measure in Farmers Branch, Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that the measure was not properly approved. The ordinance was passed by the Dallas...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Donald C. Winter, et al., United States District Court Central District of California, February 4, 2008 [rejecting the White House's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so the Navy could continue sonar...

Albert Snyder v. Fred W. Phelps, Sr., et al., US District Court for the District of Maryland, February 4, 2008 [finding Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church guilty of intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy for staging...

Southeastern Federal Power Customers, Inc., v. Peter Green, Secretary of the United States Department of the Army, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, February 5, 2008 [striking down a 2003 agreement between Georgia and US Army...

Myanmar continues to arrest and detain human rights activists, denying them fair trials in accordance with international principles, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro [official profile; JURIST news...

A federal court of appeals judge struck down a 2003 agreement between Georgia and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) allowing the state's use of a federal water reservoir. Judge Judith Rogers of the...

Russian lawyer and government critic Boris Kuznetsov applied for political asylum in the US Tuesday. Kuznetsov fled Russia in July 2007 after a court approved a criminal investigation against him for allegedly divulging state wiretapping secrets by...

Retired Argentine General Cristino Nicolaides and five other former officers stood trial Tuesday for their alleged role in the abduction and torture of five political dissidents during the country's military dictatorship of the late 1970s and 80s. In December...