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JURIST Guest Columnist Marsha N. Cohen, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, says governments have a responsibility to protect individuals' freedom by requiring health care businesses to fully meet health care needs, even over...

In Wednesday's environmental law news, the European Commission will introduce a package of measures aimed at improving air quality. In July, the Commission shelved its initial air quality plans, which were criticized as being too...

Leading Friday's states brief, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled today that a one-room religious school must comply with health and plumbing regulations even if doing so would infringe on their sectarian beliefs. The school was closed...

The Supreme Court of Nicaragua has ruled that former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman , who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003, can leave his home and move freely around Managua, Nicaragua's...

Four California Republican lawmakers have announced that they will introduce legislation which would give California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the ability to declare a state of emergency along the border with Mexico. Current California law allows the governor...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

Iranian political prisoner, dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , has ended the hunger strike he began on June 11 to protest the conditions of his confinement, his wife confirmed Monday. The confirmation follows an earlier announcement from...

Statistics from a new US Department of Justice report, Suicide and Homicide in State Prisons and Local Jails , reveal that prisoner death rates for homicide, suicide and AIDS have declined substantially in corrections facilities since...

Leading Monday's states brief, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request to suspend an Iowa state law that prohibits certain sex offenders from living within 2000 feet of a school or day care...

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday granted a one-year stay of its June ruling that the Quebec government can't block people from obtaining private insurance for health care procedures covered under the public system....