For the first time in nearly 60 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the limits of "state secrets," a legal doctrine the government often cites to quash lawsuits it says could expose information vital to national security.
But the first year entry rate could mean tuition inflation, one expert warns.
Without comment, the Supreme Court this morning turned down a challenge to D.C.´s same-sex marriage law.
The head of Brazil´s Supreme Court has said that convicted fugitive Cesare Battisti may be extradited if he is found to be in the country illegally, in a reversal from the Lula government´s position.
January 17, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.
Here are a few MLK, Jr. legal gems, courtesy of the "Yale Book of Quotations" by Yale Law librarian Fred Shapiro.
Mum Leigh McPherson bought a singing toy puppy for her baby daughter - and was horrified when it started swearing.
Police in a city ranked top in the state for alcohol-related traffic fatalities might soon be trying a new tactic to keep drunken drivers off the road: Electronic shaming on Facebook.
The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has filed his indictment for the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri as Beirut´s neighbours backed new mediation to calm rising tensions.
A former Rwandan mayor has gone on trial accused of ordering three Tutsi massacres during the country´s 1994 genocide, in the first such case prosecuted in Frankfurt, Germany.
The trial of 13 suspected members of a Greek radical anarchist group accused of carrying out a series of bombing attacks in Athens since 2008 began at a special court set up in the Greek capital city on Monday.
Iran has suspended a sentence to hang a woman at the center of a global outcry about a separate stoning sentence, a member of parliament was quoted Monday as saying, but another official suggested the comments were false.
The government announced Thursday that it would sharply restrict some of the nation´s most popular prescription painkillers, saying they cause many patients to poison themselves with overdoses of the drug acetaminophen.
Lucasfilm Ltd. should pay nearly $1.2 million in attorneys´ fees to the lawyers who won a pregnancy discrimination suit against the entertainment conglomerate last year, a Marin judge tentatively ruled Thursday.
Independence is the key factor in determining whether journalists can invoke a qualified evidentiary privilege for the information they have gathered.
The destruction of videotapes in 2005 showing abusive treatment of high-level al-Qaida detainees by CIA agents flouted an order by Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to preserve the tapes. Five years later, the judge is still looking for a remedy.
Dear lawyers: Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They are laughing with you.
The first trial in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden, unintended acceleration won´t begin until early 2013, a federal judge said on Friday.
Allegations that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had sex with a teenage prostitute are "mud" thrown on him by political opponents who want to get rid of him, the scandal-prone politician said.
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, a once feared and reviled dictator who was ousted in a popular uprising nearly 25 years ago, made a surprise return to Haiti as the country wrestles with a political crisis, cholera outbreak and the stalled reconstruction from last year´s devastating earthquake.
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