State lawmakers have expressed concern about possible problems expected to accompany the implementation of the REAL ID Act , fearing that they will not be able to comply with the law's requirements before a May 2008 deadline. The legislation, drafted after the Sept 11 attacks and designed to discourage illegal immigration, attempts to make it [...]

Lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks said Saturday that Britain's Court of Appeals will not allow further appeals from the British government in Hicks' attempt to obtain UK citizenship. Hicks, currently detained at Guantanamo Bay and facing military commission proceedings, is seeking British citizenship in hopes that the UK government will then secure his [...]

Five Chinese Uighur men who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay despite a determination that they are not enemy combatants have been flown to Albania , where government officials are reviewing their applications for asylum. According to a statement from the US State Department late Friday: the government of Albania accepted for resettlement as refugees [...]

British police have said that Anjem Choudary and Abdul Muhid now face criminal charges stemming from their roles in the February 3 demonstration outside the Danish embassy in London against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were initially printed in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The men were originally arrested March [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a case challenging federal and California laws prohibiting same-sex marriage , saying that the plaintiffs must await the outcome of litigation in California state courts. In its opinion Friday, the court ruled that: Smelt and Hammer have presented us [...]

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will retry Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's alleged terrorism-related activities, after jury deadlock in his first trial prompted US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to declare a mistrial . Umer and his son, Hamid Hayat , were charged last year [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has ruled that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will have to turn over documents essential to the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby legal defense team regarding how a secret government intelligence report on Iraq was declassified. Walton's decision came in a hearing Friday concerning several Libby document requests in preparation for [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran has a legal right to pursue its nuclear program and condemned a draft UN Security Council resolution currently being circulated , saying it does not have a legal basis. In comments during a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Azerbaijan, Ahmadinejad also said that Iran was [...]

Immigration Law Sanctions and Enforcement in Selected Foreign Countries, Law Library of Congress Directorate of Legal Research, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture, Huamn Rights Watch, April 2006 . Read the full text of the submission. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.