ACLU and unnamed library v. Gonzales, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, August 25, 2005 . Read the full text of the complaint here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff has granted United Airlines an extension to file its final bankruptcy plan. The plan, which was due in September, will now be due November 1st. The judge said the 60-day extension will be the last. Some of United's flight attendants, whose pension Wedoff [...]

AP is reporting that as the deadline on Thursday's one-day extension for an Iraqi constitutional accord expires early Saturday morning local time in Baghdad a Sunni Arab negotiator has said no agreement has been reached with Shiites and Kurds on the proposed Iraqi charter and has called on Iraqis to reject the draft in a [...]

A British High Court judge has warned that forcible returns of failed asylum seekers to Iraq could be unlawful. While not blocking removals during the urgent judicial review application brought by a Kurdish Iraqi, Justice Lawrence Collins said it was "improper" to enforce removals of people who may be protected and that removal is not [...]

US District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania John R. Padova ruled Friday that the US Department of Defense does not have the authority to dissolve a Pennsylvania National Guard division without approval of Governor Ed Rendell . The judge held that the DOD's recommendation to deactivate the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania [...]

Sexual Harassment & Violence at the Military Service Academies Report, United States Department of Defense, August 25, 2005 . Excerpt: Both the Naval and the Military Academies have made progress in addressing these issues over the last several years. The Academies need resources and support from the Services, DoD, and Congress to ensure success. The [...]

Syria is ready to assist the UN investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , a Syrian foreign ministry official told AFP Friday. Lebanese news reports said that German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis would meet "a Syrian representative" in Geneva within 24 hours, citing a UN official in New York. Syria [...]

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani announced Friday that Iran is not concerned about possible UN Security Council action on its continued uranium enrichment activities but said that the nation planned to present new ideas aimed at reducing suspicions about its nuclear agenda. Larijani said that Iran hoped to release a new plan for broadening [...]

Four California Republican lawmakers have announced that they will introduce legislation which would give California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the ability to declare a state of emergency along the border with Mexico. Current California law allows the governor to declare emergencies for war, epidemics, natural disasters, and "local emergencies." Assemblymen Mark Wyland and Ray Haynes , [...]

Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has ended his four-day hunger strike , his lawyer announced Friday. Khodorkovsky began the protest after his business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev was placed in solitary confinement for refusing to take a required daily walk, though Russian prison officials denied reports of the hunger strike. Lebedev has been [...]