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A Pennsylvania man jailed for 19 years was released from prison in Pittsburgh Monday after DNA evidence cleared him of rape charges. Thomas Doswell , an African-American, was convicted of raping a hospital worker in 1986,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Darryll Jones, former criminal trial attorney for the US Army Judge Advocate General and now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the recent ruling of the US DC Circuit Court...

AP is reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman justice on the US Supreme Court, has announced her plans to retire . Read the text of Justice O'Connor's letter of resignation addressed to President...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today that the state's Public Service Commission acted properly in approving a coal-fired power plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. S.C Johnson & Son and the environmental...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opens hearings Wednesday on the legal rights of detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the agenda for the hearings is to examine the due...

JURIST Guest Columnist Elena Baylis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Darfur may be a dream case for the International Criminal Court, the value of the International Criminal Court for Darfur is yet to be...

Tory v. Cochran, Supreme Court of the United States, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt from the court's...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Lerach, senior partner of the Lerach Coughlin complex litigation firm headquartered in San Diego who has led the prosecution of hundreds of securities class and stockholder derivative actions recovering billions of dollars, says that the...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, April 25.The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Halbert...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, as part of a plea bargain with the US Department of Justice , the Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen International S.A. has agreed to a $25 million fine and pleaded guilty...