Suicide and Homicide in State Prison and Local Jails, US Department of Justice, August 22, 2005 . Excerpt:Over the past two...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Financial Times is reporting that the US Department of Justice is nearing a settlement with Big Four accounting firm KPMG . KPMG has been under investigation for its creation and...

The US military announced Monday that three more detainees from Iran, Yemen and Tajikistan respectively have been released from the US terror suspect detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and sent home to their own countries. US...

JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall.From Los Angeles to London, from Chicago to Cairo - if you're...

Leading Monday's states brief, the California Supreme Court today extended child support laws and custody rights to estranged gay and lesbian couples who used reproductive science to conceive by ruling that same-sex couples who raise children are the lawful...

Glenn Allen Powell, a former employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) , has pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted bribes and defrauded the US government when awarding a contract...

Iraqi constitutional negotiators who submitted a draft constitution to Iraq's National Assembly shortly before the deadline at midnight local time Monday have withdrawn it in the face of continued Sunni opposition, and the Assembly has adjourned without...

The US Supreme Court refused to rehear the Kelo v. New London eminent domain case Monday, without comment. In June the justices held by a 5-4 margin that the local authority in New London, Connecticut could expropriate private...

AP is reporting that the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly has said that the draft constitution has been submitted ahead of the midnight deadline, but that there remain "pending points" that parties will try to resolve...

AP is reporting that a Shiite member of the committee writing the Iraqi constitution has said that a draft has been completed and will be submitted to the National Assembly shortly, despite ongoing Sunni reservations about...