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Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle vetoed a bill Friday that would have made doctors inform women seeking abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy that their fetuses may feel pain. The bill passed...

JURIST Guest Columnist Bryan Horrigan of Macquarie University Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the upcoming confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito are a trial not just of the nominee, but of the uniquely-American system of public judicial...

Leading Monday's environmental law news, the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 11) began today with the first session of the meeting of the Parties...

Portugal's constitutional court has blocked a national referendum designed to relax the country's abortion laws. Prime Minister Jose Socrates and the ruling Socialist party had intended to hold the referendum on November 27...

The US Supreme Court Monday lifted a temporary stay issued late Friday that blocked a lower court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion....

JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross, Professor of Law at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Alabama, says that in his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing US Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. may not reveal how he'll decide...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the ACLU filed a lawsuit today against North Carolina asking the court to rule that a "holy scripture" suitable for oath administration includes the religious texts of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and other non-Christian...

US District Judge for the District of Nebraska Laurie Smith Camp ruled Monday that Union Pacific Railroad discriminated against women by covering a range of preventive drugs, but not contraception, in its health care plan....

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether abortion clinics should be allowed to pursue their challenge to the state's abortion "implied consent" law , which requires women seeking an...

The lower chamber of the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature approved a ban of the morning-after pill on state college campuses Thursday, sending the bill to the state Senate. The proposed legislation would ban University...