US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Tuesday told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would keep an open mind on the issue of abortion and that the president was not...
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South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday that they will open a criminal investigation into South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk , a day after an investigation concluded that Hwang's acclaimed research on stem cells was fake. Reports suggest that prosecutors...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states have no immunity from private lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if the state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment. In United States v. Georgia [Duke...
Two British officials charged with leaking a UK government memo in which President Bush reportedly suggested bombing the offices of Arab satellite news channel Aljazeera will stand trial by the end of the month, the judge in...
The European Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld a law that requires airlines to pay compensation to passengers who experience long flight delays, overbooking and cancellation on flights to and from the European Union....
US District Judge Sim Lake on Monday refused to dismiss the criminal case against former Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling Chronicle profile], saying that the defense had failed to prove that there was...
Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping [JURIST news...
Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may face new charges in Turkey of draft dodging and escaping military custody after he is released from prison...
Transcript of Day 1 of confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., nominated to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, US Senate Judiciary Committee, January 9, 2006. Read the full text transcript as provided...
General Sir Michael Rose , a retired British military leader and the former UN military commander in Bosnia, has said that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for making the decision...
