Judges in Italy Thursday began examining some 43,000 problematic ballots to see whether including them in official returns might change the result of a national parliamentary election held April 9-10 that seems to have given former center-left prime minister Romano Prodi a narrow victory over current conservative incumbent Silvio Berlusconi . Official results from Italy's [...]

Vladimir Kovacevic , a Serbian commander charged with war crimes for his part in the 1991 attack on the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, has been declared unfit to stand trial because of mental illness by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . After an initial appearance at which he was unable to enter [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that instead of censuring the president, Congress should restrain the foreign excesses of the Bush presidency and restore respect for international law by cutting off funds for any US military adventure in Iran… However great my admiration for Sen. Russ Feingold [...]

MB, Re EWHC 1000 (Admin), UK High Court, April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Transcript of cockpit voice recording from United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked September 11, 2001; introduced as prosecution evidence in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, April 12, 2006. Read the full text of the transcript . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

House No. 4850, An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the act. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Hicks, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal (Civil Division), April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday approved Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 , which permits attorneys to cite unpublished opinions in the federal circuit courts. The new rule does not dictate the precedential value that circuits can assign to unpublished opinions, but attorneys will always be allowed to cite them to the courts. Currently, [...]

The Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia has increased lobbying efforts to convince national leaders that Liberia needs to set up its own war crimes court in response to the controversy surrounding the trial of former president Charles Taylor , who faces trial in the UN-supported Special Court for Sierra [...]

A British court on Wednesday held that procedures undertaken to restrain a suspected terrorist under the UK's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) breached the suspect's human rights. Although the court did not say that it was illegal for UK Home Office Secretary Charles Clarke to authorize control orders for terror suspects, the High Court judge [...]