Arar v. Ashcroft, United States District Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, February 16, 2006 [dismissing case citing "the national security and foreign policy considerations at stake" and held that Maher Arar, as a...

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Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2006, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, February 13, 2006 [report concluding that British control orders confining and/or regulating...

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ACORN v. Blanco, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, February 9, 2006 [lawsuit alleging that Louisiana's emergency election plan for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina will disenfranchise or severely burden the franchise of thousands of displaced...

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Election Reform: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why 2005-2006, electionline.org, February 7, 2006 [report finding that US states have failed to meet deadlines set by the 2002 Help America Vote Act for updating voting machines and voter databases and possibly...

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