A California federal judge was appointed Thursday to hear the trial of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner. Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit appointed Judge Larry Burns of the US District Court for the Southern District of California to preside over federal proceedings against Loughner in connection with [...]

The Italian Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down portions of a law backed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that would have granted Berlusconi and other public officials temporary immunity from charges while in office. The law, as passed by the Italian senate in March, allowed cabinet officials to postpone criminal proceedings against them for up [...]

Officials from the Ensco Offshore Company appeared in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday in connection with a lawsuit the company filed last year against the moratorium on issuing drilling permits. The moratorium was enacted after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill . ENSCO told the court that although the [...]

Media magnate Conrad Black returned to the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Thursday for a status hearing before judge Amy St. Eve . St. Eve will begin the process of deciding whether to free the Canadian-born newspaper tycoon for time served, or re-sentence him on fraud and obstruction of justice charges. [...]

The Associated Press (AP) and artist Shepard Fairey on Wednesday reached a settlement agreement on their opposing copyright infringement claims stemming from Fairey’s unauthorized use of an AP photo of incumbent US President Barack Obama . Fairey’s iconic red, white and blue artistic rendering of the AP photo was used on campaign materials during the [...]

The state of Texas on Wednesday failed for the third time in two months at its attempts to block new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the state’s request to block the program , which allocates greenhouse gas emission permits [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument in two criminal cases, one involving law enforcement creating exigent circumstances for entering a home without a warrant, and the other interpreting a provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) . In Kentucky v. King , the Court will determine whether a lawful, police-created exigent [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the recent actions against U.S. Navy Captain (Capt.) Owen Honors is a regrettable redux of the Las Vegas, NV Tailhook Association scandal of 1991. Still, this incident may reinvigorate the Department of Defense’s efforts to promote dignity and respect for all service-members, [...]

The Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) on Wednesday ordered the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to reinstate Teresa Chambers as U.S. Park Police chief after determining her termination was unjustified. The MSPB ruled that Chambers was wrongly discharged in December 2003 for discussing with a Washington Post reporter that the US Park Police Service [...]

The Italian Constitutional Court held hearings on Tuesday to determine the constitutionality of a law that grants temporary immunity to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for charges he currently faces in Milan. The law in question was passed in March and allows cabinet officials to postpone criminal proceedings against them for up to 18 months if [...]