News media throughout the country have focused in recent years on the issue of substandard health care for prison inmates. Some 65 deaths annually in California, for instance, reportedly could…
An ABA Rule of Law award will be given this year to “those lawyers and judges in Pakistan who demonstrated courage in upholding the rule of law in their country”…
In the midst of a contentious town meeting in a small Chicago suburb earlier this year, resident Greg Kachka committed a criminal act, officials contend: Wearing a custom T-shirt with…
Although the U.S. Senate unanimously voted earlier this week that John McCain is a natural-born U.S. citizen, that nonbinding resolution is not the final answer in a legal debate that…
Much has been written, in recent weeks, about the number of teen girls entering into “spiritual” underage marriages at a Texas ranch from which some 462 children were removed last…
An agreement reportedly has been reached among Pakistan’s new parliamentary leadership to restore to office all of the appellate judges removed last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
Federal prosecutors in Boise, Idaho, filed a motion yesterday seeking to close the courtroom for a high-profile sentencing in a case that reportedly involves child sexual abuse as well as…
Amid increasing concern nationwide over an apparent epidemic of gun violence, a federal appeals court decision today dismissing a New York City nuisance case against firearms manufacturers is likely to…
U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is threatening to subpoena former Justice Department officials who are refusing to testify about torture policies.
Some observers were surprised when liberal Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a lead opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday that upheld Indiana’s voter…
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