As anticipated , former US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger pleaded guilty Friday to illegally taking and destroying classified documents from the National Archives . The former Clinton Administration official acknowledged that he intentionally took and...

Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland arrived Friday at Loretto , a minimum-security federal prison in Pennsylvania, to begin his year-long sentence for corruption of office. Rowland was sentenced two weeks ago to...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, the FBI has announced it has started an investigation into auto supplier, Delphi Corp. , over improper accounting at the firm. Delphi, which had launched an internal investigation into...

Florida circuit judge Judge George Greer Friday denied a request from the St. Petersburg Times for the release of investigative summaries regarding alleged mistreatement of Terri Schiavo . The dozens of files in question are...

US Department of Defense spokesmen have said that US forces in Iraq are holding a man with joint US and Jordanian citizenship who is said to be a senior operative for terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi. The...

Lawmakers in Rhode Island have said that they will consider amending the statewide smoking ban that took effect last month in light of a Newport Superior Court judge's Thursday ruling that certain exemptions in...

New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank R. Lautenberg took House Republican leader Tom DeLay to task Friday for making anti-judicial remarks in the aftermath of Terri Schiavo's death that appeared to threaten some kind of recrimination. Clearly angered by the...

In Friday's international brief, reports filtering out of Zimbabwe following Thursday's national elections indicate that the vote is being heavily criticized. Foreign media have been continually denied access to the country, and domestic media are required to...

Nepalese King Gyanendra Friday lifted the house arrest of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala and freed nearly 257 other people detained after he declared a state of emergency in February . Three weeks...

SB 25, Massachusetts House of Representatives, passed March 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....