Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion...

AP is reporting that the Pentagon has confirmed that a US soldier at the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay kicked a detainee's Koran and that a guard's urine was splashed on the Islamic sacred text.8:35 PM ET -...

In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...

Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...

In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...

Following up on a report Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, Serbian Minister for Human Rights Rasim Ljajic said Friday that Serbian TV's broadcast of a disturbing video of six Bosnian Muslim youths being...

A Miami federal judge has ruled that Florida violated the terms of a 1991 agreement to reduce phosphorus levels in the Everglades. The US Supreme Court previously remanded the case after hearing an appeal [JURIST...

Jurors in the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy told US District Court Judge Karon Bowdre in a note Friday that they were deadlocked with regard to all charges . Scrushy, who has...

Eight men appeared in a South African court Friday to face charges of breaking the country's anti-mercenary laws, enforced under the Foreign Military Assistance Act . The South African men were freed in May, along with 53 other suspected...

A Syrian man wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings appeared in a British court on Friday as Spain requested his extradition to face charges. Moutaz Almallah Dabas was arrested in England last month, accused...