Turkish lawyer Alpaslan Aslan, on trial for the murder of a Turkish judge , caused a courtroom commotion Friday when, during the opening of his trial, his request to leave court to pray was denied, and he was...
A judge in Kentucky ruled Friday that executive immunity protects Gov. Ernie Fletcher from prosecution for alleged corrupt hiring practices while he is in office. Fletcher pleaded not guilty in June to charges...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has restricted the authority of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct by limiting the penalties that the commission can impose to discipline judges without the court's approval. Under state law...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other rights organizations have called for a "full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities" during and after Hurricane Katrina last year. In...
British banking officials froze the assets Friday of 19 suspects believed to be involved in a terrorist plot to blow up multiple planes traveling from UK airports to various destinations in the United States, while...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Thursday said that the Kyrgyzstan decision to extradite four Uzbekistan refugees and one asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan earlier this week was a breach of...
Deepening Crisis in Darfur Two Months After the Peace Agreement: An Assessment, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, August 10, 2006 [concluding that the human rights situation continues to deteriorate in some parts of Darfur despite the Darfur Peace Agreement...
US District Judge T.S. Ellis has upheld the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act , refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . Steven Rosen...
US v. Campa, United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit, August 9, 2006 . Read the...
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that seventeen cases challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program be transferred to the chief judge of the US Northern District of...