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Nearly five decades after two young black men were abducted, beaten and dumped, still alive, into the Mississippi River to drown, one of their alleged murderers is finally being tried.
…May 31, 2007 12:16 AM CDT
A subsidiary of airline giant Boeing Co. has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for allegedly aiding “extraordinary rendition” efforts by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The suit,…
May 30, 2007 8:02 PM CDT
The federal government has quarantined a man who flew on two trans-Atlantic flights with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
The quarantine order by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
May 30, 2007 2:44 PM CDT
Suspended Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry filed an affidavit Tuesday which for the first time makes public his account of a March 9 meeting with the country’s president, Gen.…
May 30, 2007 11:42 AM CDT
A $6.65 million settlement has been announced in a Chicago archdiocese priest sex abuse case, reportedly bringing the total of all such settlements paid by the Chicago archdiocese to more…
May 30, 2007 1:26 AM CDT
Same-sex couples who enter into civil unions in New Jersey are finding that the 100-day-old marriage alternative for gays and lesbians doesn’t fully protect their rights in a crisis.
For…
May 30, 2007 12:30 AM CDT
Employers fear the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will draft a new rule that will make it more difficult to defend claims of family responsibility discrimination.
More than 100 lawsuits are…
May 29, 2007 12:48 PM CDT
Lawyers have agreed to dismiss a significant test case on racial preferences in private-school admissions.
At issue in Doe v. Kamehameha Schools was whether private schools violated civil rights law…
May 14, 2007 5:05 PM CDT
A worsening crisis in Pakistan over the country’s judicial independence reportedly included a nationwide strike by the legal community and general strikes that shut down major cities on Monday. Following…
May 14, 2007 4:19 PM CDT
Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Janet Neff attended a same-sex commitment ceremony five years ago, and she still hasn’t heard the end of it in proceedings on her nomination to…
May 10, 2007 11:48 PM CDT
An anti-immigrant bill signed by the Oklahoma state governor this week won’t be effective until Nov. 1, but is already raising concerns about how it will be enforced.
Among those…
May 10, 2007 9:29 PM CDT
An Irish court has ruled that a pregnant 17-year-old who is in the care of the government has the right to travel to England for a legal abortion, as some…
May 10, 2007 12:16 AM CDT
Maryland’s governor signed the nation’s first statewide “living wage” law this week, requiring state contractors to pay workers at least $8.50 per hour and $11.30 per hour in expensive urban…
May 9, 2007 11:59 PM CDT
Eight former Florida prison workers were criminally charged Tuesday in what authorities described as an organized conspiracy to abuse prisoners that included sexual misconduct and other “despicable” acts by guards.
…May 9, 2007 8:07 PM CDT
Putting one’s hand on the Bible to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a relic of history in most American courtrooms today.…
May 9, 2007 2:29 AM CDT
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