AP is reporting that Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants who was kidnapped by 10 masked gunmen Thursday evening in Baghdad, has been found dead, according to a senior Iraqi lawyers'...
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Kidnapped Saddam trial lawyer found dead
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Underage gay sex punishment ruling [Kansas SC]
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Race-based Seattle high school admissions ruling [9th Circuit]
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Peer-to-peer movie sharing emergency sentencing rules [USSC]
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Miers letter supplementing confirmation questionnaire [US Senate]
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Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act [US House]
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Miers hearings expected to run over White House schedule
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New House bill would split Ninth Circuit, add federal judges
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Penalties increased for illicit peer-to-peer movie sharing
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West ignoring Russian rule of law breakdown, expelled Khodorkovsky lawyer says
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State v. Limon, Kansas Supreme Court, October 21, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-3522 , the Kansas unlawful voluntary sexual relations statute, does not...
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October 20, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that the District has...
Notice of temporary emergency amendments to sentencing guidelines, United States Sentencing Commission, October 19, 2005 . Read the full text...
Letter from US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to US Senator and ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, October 19, 2005 . Read the...
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act 2005, passed in the US House of Representatives October 20, 2005 . Read the full text of the legislation as previously passed...
Senators predicted Thursday that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , scheduled to begin November 7th , will probably not finish before Thanksgiving as hoped for by the White House. Senator Arlen...
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee , introduced new legislation Thursday to split the US Ninth Ciruit that would create a new US Twelfth Circuit Court of Appeals covering Alaska,...
The US Sentencing Commission has authorized emergency rules increasing penalties for persons convicted of swapping as-yet-unreleased films over peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus. The emergency regulations, which supplement the current guidelines [PDF...
Robert Amsterdam , international defense counsel for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , says that Western governments are turning a blind eye to the deteriorating rule of law in Russia exemplified by his client's prosecution and recent...
