Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the...
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International brief ~ Israeli rights group files suit against Iranian president
ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
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Rights group reports 98 deaths of detainees in US custody
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Top Democrat on House intelligence panel says White House blocked surveillance briefing
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Chile judge refuses release of ex-Peru president Fujimori
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Hallucinogenic tea religious freedom ruling [US SC]
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Voting Rights Act renewal report [NCVRA]
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Clergy sex abuse limitations ruling [NY CA]
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Property compensation law ruling [OR SC]
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New York high court rules illegal immigrant can recover lost wages
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Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has...
Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program [video...
US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , said Tuesday that a top intelligence official had been prepared to brief the committee in December on the Bush administration's...
Chilean judge Orlando Alvarez on Tuesday refused to release former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from custody while the judge considers an extradition request for Fujimori . The decision means Fujimori, who is being...
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, US Supreme Court, February 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the...
Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act at Work 1982-2005, National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, February 21, 2006 . Excerpt:In short,...
Zumpano v. Quinn, New York Court of Appeals, February 21, 2006 .Read the full text of...
MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, Supreme Court of Oregon, February 21, 2006 [ruling requiring the state government to either provide compensation to landowners for reductions of property value caused by certain land use regulations or not to apply such...
The New York State Court of Appeals ruled 5-2 Tuesday that an illegal immigrant's status as an undocumented worker does not preclude his ability to recover lost earnings. Illegal immigrant Gorgonio Balbuena was injured at...
