The New Jersey Supreme Court Wednesday ruled 5-0 that New Jersey doctors do not have a duty to inform abortion-seeking patients that an embryo is an "existing human being." The court declined to...

A group of six US states and the District of Columbia, collectively called the "California group," Tuesday requested that the terms of the 2002 Microsoft antitrust settlement be extended from their scheduled...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday rejected an appeal by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of rulings creating a federal panel to supervise California's overcrowded prison system [JURIST...

A Chinese bank official convicted of corruption was executed Tuesday for taking bribes and embezzling the equivalent of almost $2 million USD. Wen Mengie, the former IT head of the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank...

Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Tarek Dergoul is suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services over complicity with Dergoul's alleged torture, according to a Wednesday report in...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia criticized the Supreme Court of Chile on Tuesday for delaying until after September 19 its ruling on whether to allow the extradition of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori ....

The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency (NSA) have said that a July 20 appeals court decision mandating the disclosure to federal appeals...

Tennessee executed a condemned man by electric chair on Wednesday, the first execution by electrocution in the state since 1960. Daryl Holton, who confessed to the 1997 murder of his three sons and their...

Ousted Philippines president Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after being convicted on "plunder" charges stemming from kickbacks he received while in office. Plunder was formerly a capital offense, but the Philippines abolished...

Ralph Coleman, et al., v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 11, 2007 ....