Britain's most senior military figures in the House of Lords Thursday assailed the UK Ministry of Defense for subjecting soldiers to litigation arising out of their conduct in Iraq. The English Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is shortly expected to announce charges against soldiers arising from the murder of Baha Mousa and other Iraqis allegedly abused [...]

Moazamm Begg , a UK national formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay, has told the Associated Press that rampant racism in Britain, a lack of assimilation in certain communities, anger over US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and conditions in Guantanamo may have contributed to the motivations of those involved in the London bombings earlier this [...]

US District Court judge Jeffrey Miller has thrown out a lawsuit filed in March 2005 against the Associated Press and reporter Seth Hettena claiming that the news group violated privacy and copyright laws by publishing photos of Navy SEALs with Iraqi prisoners. All four counts of the lawsuit were dismissed Tuesday when Miller concluded that [...]

Brandon Mayfield , a Portland lawyer and Muslim convert, returns to a federal courthouse in Portland Friday for a pretrial hearing in his civil lawsuit against the US government. A little over a year ago Mayfield was arrested as a suspect in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people. The FBI originally claimed that [...]

A legal professional speaking on condition of anonymity has told the Associated Press that chief presidential adviser Karl Rove testified to a grand jury that he learned the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame from the media. Rove allegedly testified that columnist Robert Novak informed him Plame worked for the CIA before he publicly revealing [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that that US meatpackers can resume Canadian cattle importation, ending a two-year ban put in place after Canada discovered its first domestic case of mad cow disease . The court said in a brief order that the injunction blocking a [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ellen O’Connell of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the experienced British, newly challenged in the recent London bombings, have the right idea… The British have shown extraordinary resilience in the face of the London Transport bombings. They are determined not to [...]

BBC News is reporting that chemistry student Magdi al-Nashar has been arrested in Cairo in connection with the London bombings. BBC News has more. 11:36 AM ET – Magdi al-Nashar has denied any role in the London attacks during interrogations by Egyptian authorities, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. AP has more.

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 . Excerpt: For 217 years, through boom and bust, insurgency, civil war, and terrorist attack, this Court–the oldest United States District Court in America–has carefully and prudentially administered the Writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the rights of the [...]

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, July 14, 2005 . Excerpt: Microsoft's impassioned recitation of a parade of horribles that may befall the domestic software industry — such as the relocation of manufacturing facilities overseas — provides an insufficient basis for reaching a different result in this case. Read the full text of [...]