US Senator Patrick Leahy , ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Monday that the committee's Democrats intend to question Supreme Court nominee John Roberts about a Justice Department memo that some say led...
California's legislature passed a bill Monday that would prevent convicted sex offenders from obtaining state-funded erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs, such as Viagra and Levitra. The vote on AB 522 follows a May directive issued by...
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has called parts of the draft Iraqi constitution a "recipe for chaos" and said that the draft denies Iraq's "Arab identity." Moussa told BBC's World Today...
As anticipated in JURIST's Paper Chase, Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiracy and wire fraud charges arising from a casino cruise line deal. Abramoff was indicted earlier this month...
Several civil rights organizations, including the University of Chicago Law School's MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois announced Monday that they have asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ...
An Iraqi judge investigating charges against Saddam Hussein met with Kurdish officials Monday to gather information about the 1988 poison gas attack against the northern Iraq village of Halabja. The investigating judge from the...
The Federal Elections Commission has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that the FEC must write tougher rules for the enforcement of campaign financing laws. The FEC filed a petition for a rehearing en...
Thousands of Sunni Arabs protested the draft Iraqi constitution Monday, one day after the revised draft was presented and read to the National Assembly . The parliament did not vote to...
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has ended his four-day hunger strike , his lawyer announced Friday. Khodorkovsky began the protest after his business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev was placed in solitary...
Merck is considering settling some of the thousands of state and federal lawsuits it faces for the distribution of its painkiller Vioxx , a spokesman for the company's legal team said Friday. This...
