State of Connecticut et al. v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, September 27, 2006 [dismissing three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US...

The Prosecutor v. Momcilo Krajisnik, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, September 27, 2006 [convicting a former member of the Bosnian Serb leadership of persecutions, extermination, murder, deportation and forced transfer of non-Serb civilians during the conflict in Bosnia...

National Audubon Society et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretray of the Interior et al., United States District Court District of Alaska, Judge James K. Singleton Jr., September 25, 2006 [stopping the sale of oil and gas rights on approximately 1.7...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in nine cases Tuesday less than a week ahead of the official opening of its 2006 Term on October 2. The grants were decided in the Court's long conference Monday following...

A spokesman for Thailand's new military leadership which seized power in a bloodless coup last week has said that the new government wants to bring deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to justice and could seek...

Rule of Law Symposium address, Lord Peter Goldsmith, Attorney General for England and Wales, September 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

Agreement upon Common Article 3, September 21, 2006 [military commissions legislation language agreed to by Senate GOP leaders and the White House that would make the President the arbiter of the meaning of the Geneva Conventions for the United States,...

Secrecy Report Card 2006: Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government, OpenTheGovernment.org, September 2, 2006 . Read the full text...

Resolution 1706 (2006), expanding the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) to include its deployment to Darfur in order to support the early and effective implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement, UN Security Council, August 31,...

Margarita Lopez Torres et al. v. New York State Board of Elections et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 27, 2006 [ruling that the process for selecting New York Supreme Court judges in political conventions...