Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced Thursday that the issue of whether to repeal the state's newly enacted gay rights law has qualified for the November state ballot. The proposed "Act to Extend Civil Rights Protections...

Washington-based Alliance for Justice has urged an investigation of Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, claiming he violated ethics rules by trying to influence an appeals court decision in Chicago. Nan...

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) responded Thursday to documents US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts produced while working at the Justice Department and White House counsel's office during the Reagan administration, stating they "certainly raise some...

Report to the Secretary-General of the Commission of Experts to Review the Prosecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in Timor-Leste (then East Timor) in 1999, United Nations, released July 27, 2005 [reporting that Indoeasian officials and gang leaders should...

The American Bar Association (ABA) is revisiting the recommendation it gave for US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts when he was nominated for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ...

The UK-based Muslim Safety Forum (MSF) said Thursday that Muslim groups are reporting that attacks on religious minorities and Asians have grown over 500 percent since the London bombings on July 7 and July 21 [JURIST...

The leader of the Texas Minuteman Civil Defense Corps , the volunteer illegal immigration patrol, resigned Thursday after accusing members in the city of Goliad of being racist. Bill Parmley had been organizing a plan to...

The committee drafting the Iraqi constitution has until Monday to request an extension if necessary and members will meet that day to decide the issue, according to a committee spokesman. The final constitution is actually not...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, the US Senate Banking Committee has approved Rep. Christopher Cox 's nomination to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The nomination will now go before the...

Leading Thursday's states brief, New Jersey Acting Governor Richard J. Codey has ordered the state's Attorney General to file suit against Delaware in the US Supreme Court over British Petroleum's plans to build a...