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The US prison and jail population added prisoners from mid-2004 to mid-2005 at a rate of 2.6 percent and more than 1,000 new inmates a week, reaching a total of 2,186,230 inmates behind bars according to a...

JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan of William Mitchell College of Law, former assistant general counsel at the CIA, says that the elaboration of secrecy under the Bush administration endangers the rule of law and is contrary to basic American...

JURIST Guest Columnist Heidi Kitrosser of the University of Minnesota School of Law says that White House arguments in defense of the NSA domestic surveillance program are pushing the limits of Presidential secrecy beyond proper constitutional bounds... Two of the...

Activists around the country marked the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade with demonstrations on Sunday. In Minnesota, San Francisco, Idaho and Michigan, hundreds of anti-abortion and abortion rights demonstrators gathered in front of state capitols. Activists in...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Maine has became the first state in the US to require manufacturers to pay the cost of recycling computer monitors and televisions under a program that began Wednesday pursuant to Maine's...

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle vetoed a bill Friday that would have made doctors inform women seeking abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy that their fetuses may feel pain. The bill passed...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, the US Senate defeated a budget amendment by a 51-48 vote that would have removed drilling authority for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR) . The budget bill itself is expected...

In Monday's environmental law news, the US Senate could vote tonight on a proposal that would set aside the Environmental Protection Agency cap on mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The agency's rule , which was...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, executives at DaimlerChrysler have denied that they were involved in insider trading. German media are reporting that DaimlerChrysler's chief spokesman Hartmut Schick and executive board member Ruediger Grube are under...

The American Bar Association heads a growing list of lawyers groups organizing legal aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina . Bar associations from across the US are donating funds to support the provision of legal help to...