US Army documents released Friday suggest that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US military forces was more widespread than previously revealed. An Army investigative report from January 2004 reviewing events in 2003 concluded that at a detention facility near...

Lawyers for groups seeking to overturn California's new domestic partnership law argued their case in a state court Friday. The law went into effect January 1 and gives gay couples who register as domestic partners...

NBC is reporting that in the face of last night's US Eleventh Circuit rejection of their latest appeal of a lower court ruling refusing an injunction that would authorize re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, lawyers for...

Schiavo v. Schiavo, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, March 25, 2005 [refusing to order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be re-inserted and upholding a second federal court ruling that Schiavo's parents had failed to demonstrate a...

Human Rights Annual Report 2004, UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, March 25, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that United States personnel appear to...

NY Times v. City of NY Fire Department, et al., New York Court of Appeals, March 24, 2005 [ruling that the City of NY Fire Department must release portions of audiotapes and transcripts from 911 calls related to the 2001...

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has for a second time in three days rejected an appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents to have her feeding tube re-inserted pending federal review of her...

In a startling turn of events in the Schiavo case that could be taken as either revelation or desperation, attorneys for Terri Schiavo's parents argued at a late Friday emergency hearing by telephone with a Florida circuit court judge...

The Nebraska Supreme Court Friday upheld a state law which requires mandatory blood testing of newborn infants. The opinion rejected an appeal brought by a fundamental Christian couple, Josue and Mary Anaya. The Anayas argued...

Lawyers for Yahoo! Inc. have appeared before the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking legal protection for US Internet portals displaying content which is illegal in foreign countries, but is domestically protected by the First Amendment...