Arizona state legislator David Burnell Smith became the first US lawmaker removed from office for violating a state’s public campaign financing rules when the Arizona Supreme Court declined Thursday to stay an...

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, the eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was taken into custody by Chilean authorities Saturday when she flew in from Buenos Aires to face charges of tax evasion. Met...

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Saturday that Iran will likely have to face the UN Security Council unless it resumes compliance with nuclear non-proliferation requirements. Straw would not confirm...

In the first ruling of its kind, the British High Court on Friday ruled that two British citizens accused of illegal file-sharing must pay damages for violating UK copyright laws. The suit brought by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI)...

US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch , said Saturday that interference by Iraqi political groups may compromise the independence of the judges on the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ...

The US Department of Justice Friday announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency working in New Orleans in the post-Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Friday lifted a preliminary injunction by a lower federal court that had blocked a Kansas law requiring health care officials to report consensual sex by...

The effort by Democratic Senators John Kerry (D-MA) , Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and others to attempt a last-minute filibuster blocking the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito [JURIST news...

An act relating to the jurisdiction of the Washington human rights commission, Washington Senate, January 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper...

Memorandum for Record - Report of Violations of the Geneva Conventions and the International Laws of Land Warfare, US Department of Defense, June 10, 2004 [Defense Intelligence Agency report of a May 2004 incident where a non-combatant wife of a...