Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion...
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In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...
A same-sex marriage bill introduced in the California Assembly appears to be dead after coming up four votes short of approval on its third go-round Thursday, making it likely that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not get...
AFL-CIO v. Chao, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt:Because section 208 limits the Secretary's authority to promulgate rules...
Appeals court strikes down part of new union financial disclosure requirements
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday struck down part of the Bush administration's new financial disclosure requirements for unions, but upheld others. A majority of the three-judge panel found...
Tory v. Cochran, Supreme Court of the United States, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt from the court's...
The US Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying documents related to the Enron collapse, citing faulty jury instructions. According to the Court, the instructions failed to convey properly the elements of...
FOIA FBI records on treatment of Gitmo prisoners and Koran by US personnel [ACLU]
Log of (and links to) FBI records of interviews with Guantanamo detainees in 2002 and 2003 concerning treatment of prisoners and of the Koran by US personnel [containing allegations that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet and in...
FBI memo shows repeated detainee complaints over Koran mistreatment
In a 2002 FBI document made public Wednesday, an FBI agent wrote that a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay naval base claimed that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet, a claim paralleling one made in a recent...
Supreme Court rules states can't block direct interstate wine shipments
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may not pass laws banning out-of-state wineries from shipping wine directly to customers in state. The ruling strikes down New York and Michigan laws [state shipping laws from Wine...
