Japan's Justice Ministry said Wednesday that despite US requests to hand over fugitive former US chess champion Bobby Fischer, it would release him so that he could go to Iceland , which Monday granted...

The United States Tuesday presented three draft resolutions on Sudan to the UN Security Council in an effort to obtain agreement on critical issues that to this point has been stymied by a deadlock over the locus...

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Associated Press by several Navy SEALs and the wife of a US special forces member claiming that the wire service published photos of...

Federal prosecutors have asked to intervene in the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black , former company president David Radler, and Hollinger, Inc., confirming for the first time that they are...

European leaders are rallying around French President Jacques Chirac and trying to avoid a negative French vote on the European constitution by calling for revisions of European Union economic reform plans at the...

Schiavo v. Schiavo, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, March 23, 2005 [refusing 2-1 to order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be re-inserted and upholding a lower court ruling that Schiavo's parents "failed to demonstrate a substantial...

In a 2-1 decision issued early Wednesday morning, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit refused to order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be re-inserted. The appeals court agreed with the earlier...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, March 23.The US Senate and US House are in recess until April 4.The European Council session continues today, with...

Brown v. Payton, Supreme Court of the United States, March 22, 2005 [ruling reversing the Ninth Circuit's decision to order a new trial and holding that testimony regarding defendant's religious conversion may have been considered altogether insignificant for a jury...

City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Scalia, March 22, 2005 [limiting the liability local governments face in fights over cell phone towers, holding that a small California town does not have to...