Letter from US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to US Senator and ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, October 19, 2005 . Read the...

Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act 2005, passed in the US House of Representatives October 20, 2005 . Read the full text of the legislation as previously passed...

Senators predicted Thursday that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , scheduled to begin November 7th , will probably not finish before Thanksgiving as hoped for by the White House. Senator Arlen...

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee , introduced new legislation Thursday to split the US Ninth Ciruit that would create a new US Twelfth Circuit Court of Appeals covering Alaska,...

The US Sentencing Commission has authorized emergency rules increasing penalties for persons convicted of swapping as-yet-unreleased films over peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus. The emergency regulations, which supplement the current guidelines [PDF...

Robert Amsterdam , international defense counsel for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , says that Western governments are turning a blind eye to the deteriorating rule of law in Russia exemplified by his client's prosecution and recent...

The government of Saudi Arabia on Thursday denied accusations that Saudi officials tortured Ahmed Omar Abu Ali while he was detained by the Saudi government in 2003. Abu Ali, an American citizen arrested in Saudi Arabia, testified...

In a 7-4 decision issued on Thursday, a full panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the Seattle school district's use of race in its high school admissions policy. The policy allows...

Ecuador's high court on Thursday rejected an attempt by President Alfredo Palacio to seek a referendum on his political reforms. Palacio, a political independent in office for only seven months, has no support in the Ecuador Congress...

A German appeals court on Thursday heard an appeal brought by federal prosecutors challenging last year's acquittal of Deutsche Bank CEO Joseph Ackermann . The appeal comes from a July 2004 court ruling that cleared Ackermann...