US government secrecy continued to increase in 2007, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2008 released Tuesday by OpenTheGovernment.org . The report chastized the Bush administration for its refusal "to be held accountable...
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A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Monday granted summary judgment for the state of Georgia in a suit alleging that the state's electronic voting system is unconstitutional and illegally vulnerable to fraud. The challenge, filed in...
Carl Eric Olsen v. Michael Mukasey, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, September 8, 2008 [rejecting claims that federal and state drug laws violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a priest in a religious organization...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday calling on Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen to join in a global moratorium on the death penalty for juveniles. The report...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment and dismissal to Michigan's Region VII Area Agency on Aging (Region VII) , instead ruling...
United States of America v. James Ford Seale, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, September 9, 2008 [vacating the conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for his involvement in the 1964 deaths of two...
The US District Court for Connecticut has blocked enforcement of a new provision of the US Bankruptcy Code against attorneys seeking to advise clients about taking on additional debt. District Judge Christopher Droney issued...
A three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against drug maker Merck & Co. over claims relating to its prescription painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news...
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the conviction of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday rejected claims that federal and state drug laws violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a priest in the...
