The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday rejected challenges to a securities fraud class action suit brought by former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , affirming...

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a memorandum that would provide certain benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. In a fact sheet released earlier in the day, the White House...

US Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that passing hate crimes legislation is one of his top priorities for the future, during the first Department of Justice (DOJ) [official...

Resolution apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African Americans, S Con Res 26, US Senate, June 18, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Tucker, et al. v. Scrushy, et al., Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, June 18, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.FindLaw | Opinion in Tucker v....

District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District, et al. v. Osborne, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 [holding that a defendant does not have the right to obtain post-conviction access to the state's biological evidence in order to do...

Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., US Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 [holding that the burden is on the plaintiff to prove that age was the determining factor in an age discrimination in employment suit and that a mixed-motive jury...

Yeager v. United States, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 [holding that a criminal defendant cannot face new prosecution for counts on which a jury failed to reach a verdict but that share a common element with other counts of...

Memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies, Subject: Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination, The White House, June 17, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday began the retrial of former Rwandan army officer Tharcisse Muvunyi . In August, the ICTR quashed Muvunyi's 25-year prison sentence, ruling that...