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Spector et al. v. Norwegian Cruise Lines Ltd., United States Supreme Court, June 6, 2005 [ruling that foreign cruise ships in US waters and ports are subject to federal civil rights and disability law, overturning a Fifth Circuit Court of...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that foreign cruise ships in US waters and ports are subject to federal civil rights law, overturning a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision . The ruling extends the American with Disabilities Act...

The US Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide whether states and counties can be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act for not making accommodations for disabled inmates in prisons. The Bush administration filed an...

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Oregon v. Guzek (docket 04-928), a death sentence case involving a convicted murderer's efforts to bring evidence into his sentencing hearing that would cast doubt on the conviction. A ruling here...

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...

The US Supreme Court Monday unanimously ruled in Rousey v. Jacoway that Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) can be exempted from a bankruptcy estate, allowing bankruptcy filers to retain their IRAs rather than forcing...

Schiavo v. Schiavo, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Judge James Whittemore, March 25, 2005 [refusing for a second time to issue an injunction authorizing the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and denying the substantial...

US District Judge James Whittemore has denied a second emergency request from Terri Schiavo's parents to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. Whittemore denied a first request on Tuesday , but after that was unsuccessfully appealed...

The White House on Monday insisted that the special legislation passed by Congress in a matter of hours over the weekend regarding review of Terri Schiavo's case was not intended as a precedent for...

President Bush early Monday morning signed legislation passed by the US Senate and then the House that would allow the federal courts to review the case of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo [JURIST news...