The ACLU of Northern California has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Northern California on behalf of Pacific News Service, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the California Department of...

Reuters is reporting that the US military will close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and transfer approximately 4,500 prisoners to other facilities in Iraq, according to a military spokesman. The prison, a torture center under the regime...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered over 100 violations of wiretapping and intelligence gathering rules in the past two years, including using wiretaps that exceeded the scope authorized by court warrant and obtaining communications with an...

Google has agreed to pay up to $90M to settle a class action lawsuit filed last year in Arkansas state court, alleging that Google and other online search engine companies overcharged for pay-per-click advertising, in...

Human rights violations remain a problem in the United States, including illegal wiretapping, police abuse, wrongful convictions, and the world's highest ratio of people behind bars, according to a report released Thursday by China. The Human Rights Record of...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Supreme Court of India has exercised a rarely used power and sentenced Zahira Sheikh for deliberately retracting her testimony concerning the arson of the Best Bakery in the state of...

Serbia and Montenegro Wednesday contested the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice at The Hague to hear a case brought by Bosnia accusing Serbia's predecessor state Yugoslavia of perpetrating state-sponsored genocide ...

Results of a new study released by the Dublin Roman Catholic archdiocese in Ireland show that while 102 Dublin priests are suspected of abusing children since 1940 and 32 of them are facing lawsuits, only eight...

2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, March 8, 2006 . Read the full text of the reports. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006, US Congress, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....