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Members of the Independent Inquiry Committee created to investigate the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme discussed their findings and recommendations with the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in testimony...

US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' responses to the US Senate Judiciary Committee nomination questionnaire, released October 18, 2005. Read the full text of the answered questionnaire . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.ALSO ON JURIST Op-ed: Two Cheers for Harriet...

US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Tuesday submitted her responses to written questions posed by the Senate Judiciary Committee , revealing past support for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to...

US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Tuesday will turn in her responses to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire devised to reveal how she might rule on cases brought before the Supreme...

Susan Wood, former director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Department of Women’s Health said Monday that the FDA’s refusal earlier this year to consider over-the-counter sales of Plan B , also known as the...

The US Supreme Court Monday lifted a temporary stay issued late Friday that blocked a lower court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion....

US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will offer her first rebuttal to concerns over her qualifications Monday in answers to a Senate questionnaire on several topics, including judicial activism. White House...

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a temporary stay late Friday blocking a lower federal court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion. A...

Leading Thursday's states brief, a New York appeals court ruled today that a member of a Vermont civil union has no standing to sue a Manhattan hospital for malpractice in the death of his partner. In finding...

JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Schapiro of Emory University School of Law says that lacking judicial experience, White House counsel Harriet Miers may find it difficult to demonstrate the independence from executive power appropriate for a Supreme Court justice... Amid the...