International Air Transport Association et al. v. Department for Transport (UK), European Court of Justice, January 10, 2006 [upholding a EU regulation requiring airlines to pay compensation to passengers who experience long flight delays, overbooking and cancellation on flights to...

Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional) said Tuesday it will investigate whether seven former Chinese leaders committed genocide and other crimes in Tibet. The genocide suit was filed last June by three Tibet support groups and thrown out...

Ukraine Justice Minister Serhiy Holovatyi on Tuesday warned that the country was plunging into "legal chaos" after the Ukrainian Parliament voted to fire Prime Minister Yuri Yekhanurov's government in a no-confidence motion...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the first Asia-Pacific Development and Climate Partnership Ministerial Meeting has opened in Sydney, Australia. The meeting brings representatives from the US, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea and India together to set up projects...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has rejected criticisms by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour that Britain's proposed anti-terrorism bill violates basic rights and sets a "worrying precedent." Arbour...

Peru's National Election Council formally announced Tuesday that former president Alberto Fujimori is banned from participating in the April 9 presidential election. The council's decision came after Fujimori registered as a presidential candidate [JURIST...

The lower chamber of Russia's parliament, the Russian State Duma , approved a bill Tuesday mandating stricter controls on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that could dissolve many of the present NGOs that openly criticize the government. The...

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Tuesday told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would keep an open mind on the issue of abortion and that the president was not...

South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday that they will open a criminal investigation into South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk , a day after an investigation concluded that Hwang's acclaimed research on stem cells was fake. Reports suggest that prosecutors...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states have no immunity from private lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if the state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment. In United States v. Georgia [Duke...