US District Judge Susan Dlott ruled Wednesday that an Ohio law prohibiting use of the abortion-inducing pill RU-486 is unconstitutional. The law was modeled after a regulation issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
US District Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho on Wednesday ruled that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that the government wrongfully arrested plaintiff...
French judge Jean-Claude Kross Wednesday postponed a verdict in the trial of six former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan , saying the...
US State Department officials testified Wednesday that the number of refugees admitted to the US has fallen by 23 percent as a result of provisions in the USA Patriot Act...
A writer of the draft constitution for Thailand confirmed Thursday that the country's military rulers, who seized control in a bloodless coup on September 19, will have a continued role in the...
A federal judge Wednesday set a 2009 trial date for the lawsuit by computer chip-maker Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) against arch-rival Intel after ruling Tuesday that AMD...
The heirs of slaves, who filed federal lawsuits against companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the abolition of the practice in the United States, argued Wednesday in front of the US Seventh Circuit Court of...
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, California State Assembly, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in...
State of Connecticut et al. v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, September 27, 2006 [dismissing three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US...
An Act of Vengeance, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, September 27, 2006 [concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip amounts to a war...