Smith v. Massachusetts, Supreme Court of the United States, February 22, 2005 . Excerpt from the majority opinion by Justice Scalia:The Double...

Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co., Supreme Court of the United States, February 22, 2005 for purposes of seeking personal injury compensation under the...

President Bush has urged European leaders to reconsider plans to end a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, arguing that it could jeopardize US security guarantees for Taiwan. Bush was expected to press the issue during his visit to the...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, over 400 food products in the UK have been revealed to be contaminated with the industrial food dye Sudan 1 by the Food Standards Agency...

A report issued Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency urges that nuclear fuel production should not be left under the control of individual countries. An expert panel assigned to consider nonproliferation of nuclear technology found that...

The Egyptian government failed to release the names of an estimated 2,400 people detained in the wake of terror attacks last fall and has since tortured many of the detainees, according to a report issued Tuesday by Human Rights...

AP is reporting that a Pinellas Circuit Court judge in Florida has issued an emergency stay to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube until late Wednesday afternoon.3 PM ET - An AP report is now available online....

A federal district judge has ruled that United Airlines employees can proceed with a class action lawsuit against the beleagered airline's employee stock ownership plan and the plan trustees, attorneys for the employees said Tuesday. The suit...

The Second District Court of Appeals in Florida issued a one-page mandate on Tuesday allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube which sustains his brain-damaged wife Terri Schiavo . Terri's parents were seeking an...

The Hong Kong government announced on Tuesday that it will begin encouraging couples to have three children, in an effort to reverse the territory's falling birth rate. In a radio interview, Chief Secretary Donald Tsang said the...