Lawyers for the US government on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court panel to remove District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth from a case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money ...

The French National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday approved compromise labor legislation to replace the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , the youth jobs plan that prompted...

Council on American Islamic Relations v. Ballenger, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 11, 2006 [upholding the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against former US Rep. Cass Ballenger brought by an American Muslim civil...

French students and union members staged sporadic "victory marches" Tuesday to celebrate the government's withdrawal of the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) as legislators prepared for a vote on a replacement $180M job training...

A new photograph of detainees from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was released by the ACLU Tuesday after having been turned over by the US Department of Defense (DOD) pursuant to a federal court...

The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate introduced a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday that would allow the country's president and state governors to seek a third term in office. Nigeria's constitution currently permits two four-year terms,...

Haiti's interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has asked the country's High Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes to conduct an investigation into the finances of all government officials and aides to address allegations of corruption and mismanagement....

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the UK Environment Agency has been found guilty of polluting the waters of the Barle River, a tributary of the Exe in Devon. The pollution consisted of hazardous chemicals from cement waste...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against former US Rep. Cass Ballenger which was brought by an American Muslim civil rights group. The Council on American-Islamic...

JURIST has been nominated for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2006. Called the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts...