In Re: National Security Agency Telecommunication Records Litigation, US District Court for the Northern District of California, July 24, 2007 [refusing the federal government's motion to dismiss lawsuits brought by the states of Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, and Vermont...

The United States v. David Matthew Hicks: Final Report of the Independent Observer for the Law Council of Australia, Law Council of Australia, July 24, 2007 [finding that trial of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks eroded the rule of...

Draft Reform Treaty, Council of the European Union, July 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the draft and associated materials. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Haji Bismullah and Haji Mohammad Wali v. Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 20, 2007 [ruling that federal appeals courts reviewing "enemy combatant" designations must review all evidence regarding...

Executive Order: Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency , President George W. Bush, July 20, 2007 [prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment during the...

Valerie Plame Wilson, et al. v. I. Lewis Libby, Jr., et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 19, 2007 [dismissing a lawsuit filed by exposed former CIA operative Valerie Plame against members of the Bush administration...

The Prosecutor of the Special Court v. Alex Tamba Brima, et al., Special Court for Sierra Leone, July 19, 2007 [sentencing three Sierra Leone junta leaders to terms ranging from 45 to 50 years in prison for war crimes including...

Productores de Musica de Espana (Promusicae) v. Telefonica de Espana SAU, European Court of Justice Advocate General Juliane Kokott, July 18, 2007 [recommending that European Union govermments should resist disclosing internet user information sought by copyright industry groups for civil...

In re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 PA 71, Michigan Supreme Court, July 18, 2007 . Read the...

Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy, Human Rights Watch, July 17, 2007 [finding that the mandatory deportation of legal immigrants convicted of crimes, including non-violent misdemeanors offenses, has separated an estimated 1.6 million children...