Reprocessed Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) and Administrative Review Board (ARB) Documents, US Department of Defense, released March 3, 2006 . Review the full text of the documents (60 PDF files amounting to over 5000 printed pages). Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for corruption. Cunningham pleaded guilty last November to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion and promptly resigned from office. He admitted to taking $2.4 million in bribes in a case that [...]

The US Department of Defense late Friday released the names of Guantanamo Bay detainees pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Associated Press and later pressed in a lawsuit . The names appear in transcripts of Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings in which military panels reviewed whether detainees were properly classed [...]

CNN is reporting that Research in Motion , maker of the BlackBerry wireless device, has reached a $612.5 million settlement in its patent dispute with NTP Inc. In 2003, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that RIM violated a patent held by NTP, Inc. and that decision was upheld on [...]

After nearly five days of round-the-clock negotiations in New York City, bankrupt Northwest Airlines (NWA) has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots union, NWA officials announced Friday. The pilots' union, the Northwest Airlines Air Line Pilots Association (NAALPA) , is the second union to settle with the reorganizing airline this week, following the flight [...]

A coalition of 12 states, three cities and several environmental groups appealed to the US Supreme Court Friday in a bid to force the federal government and Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) "greenhouse gas" emissions from personal automobiles, citing the link to global warming. Read a National Environmental Trust press release announcing [...]

US-based Eller & Co. said Friday that Britain's Court of Appeal has agreed to hear on Monday its petition for appeal against a High Court ruling approving the takeover of British shipping company P&O by United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World (DPW) , which would grant DPW control of six major US ports. The Court [...]

An Ethiopian court has rejected an application by three of 129 Ethiopian election protesters to have a separate trial and adjourned the trial of all 129 people until March 22. The charges, which include conspiracy, treason and genocide for some defendants, relate to mass demonstrations in the wake of Ethiopia's May 2005 elections where government [...]

The Ohio Supreme Court issued a 4-3 opinion Friday permitting the parents of an unhealthy child born as a result of negligent genetic counseling or negligent failure to diagnose a fetal defect or disease to sue for medical malpractice . The court held that parents can recover damages for the costs related to the pregnancy [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday that the administration is not conducting any additional warrantless domestic surveillance beyond what President Bush acknowledged in December. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) disclosed the information in an interview with the Washington Post, saying that Gonzales responded to a fax she sent him regarding Gonzales’ February 28 letter to [...]