The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including a decision in Will v. Hallock , where the Court ruled that a refusal to apply the judgment bar in the Federal...
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the constitutionality of a New Hampshire abortion law. In a unanimous decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England [Duke...
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , rejecting federal efforts to prevent doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives. In 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft...
In the second day of pre-trial hearings for Canadian teenager Omar Khadr before a Guantanamo Bay military commission Thursday, presiding officer Col. Robert Chester said that Khadr's civilian lawyers could begin "making preliminary inquiries"...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that a death sentence can stand in some circumstances even when the sentencing jury relied in part on a factor later found invalid. In Brown v. Sanders [Duke Law case...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee enters its third day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito Wednesday morning with more questions scheduled from senators. On Tuesday, Alito parried questions on abortion and...
US District Judge Sim Lake on Monday refused to dismiss the criminal case against former Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling Chronicle profile], saying that the defense had failed to prove that there was...
The US Army has dropped charges against Capt. Christopher Beiring, the Army officer implicated in the death of two terror detainees at the US-run Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan , due to...
Christian conservatives on Sunday rallied in support of US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and called for reforms to the federal judiciary, during Justice Sunday III . The rally, sponsored...
US Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has said that while Democrats on the committee are considering delaying a vote on Samuel Alito's confirmation to the US Supreme...
