The Russian Education Ministry faces a lawsuit calling for it to remove evolution from the national science curriculum. The parents of Maria Shreiber, a 15 year old schoolgirl from St. Petersburg, have argued in court papers that school presentation of Darwin's theory prevents students from developing different beliefs about the creation of man. The case [...]

American Online Inc. v John Does, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, February 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the complaints. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, February 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here .

State v. Foster, Supreme Court of Ohio, February 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed his client be prohibited if he resumes his hunger strike. Muhammed Bawazir ended his protest hunger strike in January [...]

The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that construction on 12 holding cells has been completed, and the world's first general international war crimes court is ready to use them to detain leaders of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda, for whom the court issued arrest warrants last year. The ICC hopes to arrest the [...]

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The complaint alleges that the NSA failed to get a court order authorizing electronic surveillance thereby failing to follow procedures required [...]

Britain's High Court Tuesday blocked a four week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone ordered by a case tribunal of the Adjudication Panel for England last week for bringing his office into disrepute. The suspension, scheduled to begin March 1, stemmed from an exchange between Livingstone and a Jewish journalist. The High Court deferred the [...]

The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on petitions brought against the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo last week. Arroyo, who today said the decree will remain in effect at least until Saturday , said the move was necessary to resist a coup plot which resulted in the arrest of [...]

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee holding a second hearing Tuesday on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program appeared frustrated by the lack of information released by the Bush administration. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) accused the White House of "running roughshod over the Constitution and hiding behind inflammatory rhetoric demanding Americans blindly trust [...]