Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina, UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, July 22, 2005 [report condemning "Operation Restore Order," an initiative implemented by the government of...

US v. Kaczynski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 21, 2005 [ruling ordering the US government to sell the writings and other materials seized from the home of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski in 1996 and use the...

Bill C-38, An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes, signed into law July 20, 2005 [bill authorizing same-sex marraige across Canada, introduced after courts in seven provinces ruled that the country's traditional definition of...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency , et al., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 [ruling that the EPA was correct in denying a nonprofit group's petition have it...

Shays, et al. v. Federal Election Commission , US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 [ruling upholding a prior US District Court decision that regulations imposed by the FEC undercut the McCain-Feingold campaign finance...

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Excerpt:Hamdan claims that AR 190-8 entitles him to have a "competent tribunal"...

Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America v. US Department of Agriculture, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 14, 2005 [providing in a preliminary ruling that US meatpackers can resume Canadian cattle importation, ending...

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real...

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, July 14, 2005 [ruling upholding a lower court decision that Microsoft Corp. was liable for infringing on an AT&T Corp. patent for converting speech into computer code in copies of Windows operating...

Investigations into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse, US Department of Defense , released July 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the...