The Missouri Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously upheld a 2005 law that allows parents to sue people who help their minor daughters get an abortion without parental consent. Planned Parenthood had challenged the law on...
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The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) had no First Amendment right to turn over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters. In 1996,...
About 70 lawyers representing some of the top firms in the US Tuesday lobbied various congressional offices to restore the writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo Bay detainees brought before military tribunals. The lawyers, who also included public defenders...
Thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the United States Tuesday for more relaxed immigration laws and facilitated routes to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Marchers took to the streets in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Washington...
The English Lord Chancellor told a House of Lords committee Tuesday that the scheduled creation of a new Ministry of Justice split off from the traditional Home Office would go ahead later this month without any parliamentary...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed a second judge from the Ukrainian Constitutional Court Tuesday, just one day after dismissing judge Valeriy Pshenichny for an "oath violation." Deputy Chairwoman and Justice Syuzanna...
The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that the first parliamentary vote on the only candidate standing for election to the presidency of Turkey was invalid because a quorum of legislators did not participate in the vote as...
Canadian Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told the Canadian House of Commons for the first time Monday that the government had in fact heard claims from detainees held by authorities in Afghanistan that they had been tortured...
A federal judge ruled Monday that a New Hampshire law requiring that prescription information identifiable to particular doctors be kept confidential from pharmaceutical sales representatives violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutional. IMS Health and Verispan ...
Efforts to combat widespread corruption in Iraq are being hindered by security problems and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's reinstatement of a provision of the country's Saddam-era criminal procedure code allowing ministers to block...
