The Kansas Senate voted Thursday in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and would prohibit the state from allowing civil unions or granting benefits normally associated with marriage to same-sex...

Google Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission have settled a complaint over the company's failure to register employee stock options during its initial public offering in August. The settlement, in which Google accepted a...

Court-martial proceedings began Friday for a US soldier charged with the murder of a wounded Iraqi teenager during a outbreak of violence in Baghdad last year. Staff Sgt. Cardenas Alban, of the 41st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Riley,...

A defense witness testifying Thursday in the military trial of Spc. Charles Graner told the jury that intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison told Graner and others what to do. Former military policewoman Megan Ambuhl [CDI...

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukoych Friday filed one last appeal over the December 26 presidential re-vote with the Ukrainian Supreme Court in a final legal bid to...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, January 14.At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 10 AM ET for closed consultations on Iraq. The trial of Fatmir...

World Report 2005, Human Rights Watch, released January 13, 2005 [examining human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2004, and finding that the worldwide system for protecting human rights was significantly weakened over the past year by the...

Selman, et al. v. Cobb County School District, United States District Court for Northern Georgia, Judge Clarence Cooper, January 13, 2005 . Excerpt:In the instant...

Following up on JURIST report from earlier today, US Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Mitchell has now approved a deal between US Airways and the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board , extending the government's financing of the troubled...

Israel's High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction Thursday instructing state workers "to refrain from all uprooting of trees or orchards and digging, paving, leveling, construction or other preparations" for the erecting of the security fence...