The US Transportation Security Administration lawyer who allegedly coached government witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial and nearly scuttled the prosecution's case is under criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office in Philadelphia and...
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US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday urged greater attention to reports of genocide in Sudan's Darfur region . In a speech to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law [official...
Over 780 new allegations of clergy sex abuse were reported to the US Catholic Church in 2005, though a majority of the claims relate to incidents which occurred in past decades, according to a new audit...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved by a 12-6 vote S. 1768 , an amendment to 28 USC 45 that would permit Supreme Court proceedings to be televised, "unless the Court decides by a vote...
Shays v. FEC, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, March 29, 2006 . Read the full text...
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Bank of America may proceed with a counterclaim for damages of over $1 billion...
Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, March 30, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Décision n° 2006-535, Loi pour l'égalité des chances, French Constitutional Council, March 30, 2006 [upholding the constitutionality of legislation that includes the First Employment Contract (CPE), a controversial labor law allowing employers to hire workers under 26 for a conditional...
Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , told reporters Thursday that he is currently investigating allegations raised by the Falun Gong spiritual group , banned by the Chinese government, that thousands of...
US District Judge Emmit G. Sullivan has ruled that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has not provided adequate reasons for failing to more strictly regulate so-called 527 groups , nonprofits named for the tax...
