US Solicitor General Paul Clement announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his post, effective June 2. Perhaps best-known for his Supreme Court advocacy of Bush Administration positions on rights and procedures...
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US solicitor general announces resignation
Alleged 9/11 plotters scheduled for June military commission arraignment
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Legal advisor staying after Guantanamo trial disqualification
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Texas appeals court overturns jury award against Merck in Vioxx case
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Poland court wants more evidence in indictment against ex-communist leaders
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Denmark government to propose headscarf ban for judges
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UK announces public inquiry into 2003 death of Iraqi detainee
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Indiana appeals court partially overturns sex offender residence law
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Russian gallery director charged for show of banned art
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US peace groups file constitutional challenge to Iraq war
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US military judge Col. Ralph Kohlmann set June 5 as the tentative date for the military commission's arraignment of the five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks in an email to...
US Air Force Reserve Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , a top Pentagon legal advisor on the Guantanamo military commission trials, said Wednesday that he will not resign despite questions concerning his objectivity. Hartmann serves as legal...
A Texas appeals court Wednesday overturned a jury verdict that found pharmaceutical giant Merck liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking...
A Polish judge ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors must amend their indictment against former communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski and other former communist officials to present a greater range of evidence against the defendants....
The Danish government said Wednesday that it would propose new legislation to ban sitting judges from wearing religious dress , including Islamic headscarves, in court. Also Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticized Immigration...
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced Wednesday that it will conduct a public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British...
The Indiana Court of Appeals Tuesday ruled that a 2006 state law barring convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, public park or youth center is unconstitutional...
The curator of a Russian art gallery has been charged with "inciting hatred" for hosting an exhibit of art banned from other galleries, including pieces that mocked the Russian Orthodox Church and the nation's military,...
A coalition of anti-war activists represented by the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark Tuesday filed a lawsuit in US District Court for New Jersey seeking a declaratory judgment that...
