The heirs of slaves, who filed federal lawsuits against companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the abolition of the practice in the United States, argued Wednesday in front of the US Seventh Circuit Court of...
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, California State Assembly, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in...
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...
An Act of Vengeance, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, September 27, 2006 [concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip amounts to a war...
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...
US District Judge Mark Kravitz Wednesday dismissed three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US Department of Education claiming that provisions of the federal No Child...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 into law Wednesday, marking the approval of the first US bill designed to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. Among other...
The US House of Representatives approved its version of the controversial military commissions bill Wednesday by a margin of 253-168 with 160 Democrats voting against the legislation. After passage, Speaker Dennis...
Former Bosnian Serb parliamentary leader Momcilo Krajisnik was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday for various war crimes related to...
Retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned Wednesday against growing efforts at "judicial intimidation" in the United States. In a Wall St. Journal op-ed O'Connor said that a recently-proposed South Dakota constitutional amendment [Amendment E...