An opposition politician in Niger on Tuesday accused President Mamadou Tandja of committing a coup d'etat by annulling the West African country's Constitutional Court on Monday. Bazoum Mohamed of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS)...
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The German Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that the European Union (EU) reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty , is compatible with the German Basic Law ,...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday that they would attempt to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide. The announcement came after the ICC ruled last week...
The US Supreme Court closed its 2008 term Monday without deciding whether to hear the case of the remaining 13 Chinese Uighur Muslims at Guantanamo Bay . The Court did not provide...
The US Supreme Court issued a second set of orders Monday, granting certiorari in one additional case. On its final day of the term, the Court agreed to hear Briscoe v....
Wazir, et al. v. Gates, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 29, 2009 [dismissing a habeas corpus challenge brought by an Afghan detainee who has been held at Bagram Air Base without having been charged...
Cuomo, Attorney General of New York v. Clearing House Associations, LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 29, 2009 [holding that the National Bank Act and 12 CFR § 7.4000 do not prevent a state from enforcing fair lending laws...
Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano, et al., US Supreme Court, June 29, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...
Kenyan troops tortured, raped, and committed other human rights violations against civilians during an operation to quell ethnic fighting in the country's northeastern Mandera Triangle region, according to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
Iran's Guardian Council of the Constitution on Monday certified the results of the controversial June 12 presidential election , officially sanctioning the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile; JURIST...
