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Haywood v. Drown, et al. US Supreme Court, May 26, 2009 [holding that New York Correction Law § 24, which prevents state trial courts from hearing claims for money damages against prison employees whether based on federal or state law,...
US military lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad asked the Supreme Court of Afghanistan Monday to demand his release from the facility. The lawyers have petitioned the Afghan...
Representatives of the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) and the Law Council of Australia (LCA) said Monday that the Fijian government's plan to take over the issuance of legal licenses threatens to disrupt the rule of law...
The Russian State Duma passed a bill on Friday that would end the ability of the country's Constitutional Court to select its president and double the length of the court president's term. The bill...
Mongolia Democratic Party presidential candidate Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on Monday defeated current president Nambar Enkhbayar in the country's general election. Educated in the US, Elbegborj ran on a platform of fighting corruption and redistributing profits...
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Monday filed a motion renewing his claim that that International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) should drop charges...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and other world leaders on Monday condemned a North Korea nuclear weapon test held earlier in the day. The test violates a 2006 UN Security Council ban on nuclear or missile tests by...
UK Armed Services Minister Bob Ainsworth said Sunday that the British military is again considering whether to change a policy that prohibits women from serving in "close combat" positions. The review, mandated every eight years by a European Union...
A Washington State woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer has become the first person to commit physician-assisted suicide under the state's Death with Dignity Act . Linda Fleming had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and on Thursday took...
