US v. Steven J. Rosen et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, August 9, 2006 [upholding the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act and refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American...

Letter dated 7 August from the UN Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, August 7, 2006 . Excerpt:The attack on...

State of Nevada v. Department of Energy, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 8, 2006 [declining to review a US Department of Energy proposal to move nuclear waste to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository...

Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, August 7, 2006 . Read the...

Draft resolution for a Middle East ceasefire presented by France and the United States, UN Security Council, August 5, 2006:The Security Council,PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004),...

Mexican presidential election recount rulings, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, August 5, 2006 [rejecting a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2...

Israeli security forces late Saturday detained the speaker of the Palestinian parliament after surrounding his home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is a senior member...

Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, Vermont Supreme Court, August 4, 2006 [ruling that Vermont civil union laws govern a child custody battle between a now-separated lesbian couple who were legally joined in a civil union in Vermont, despite conflicting decisions by Virginia...

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential...

League of United Latin American Citizens, et. al. vs. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, et. al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, August 4, 2006 [redrawing the boundaries of Texas's 23rd Congressional District to...