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LaRoyce Lathair Smith v. Texas, Supreme Court of the United States, per curiam, November 15, 2004 . Read the...

Mark Godsey, University of Cincinnati College of Law:"An article that appeared last year in the Atlantic Monthly about clemency memos written by Alberto R. Gonzales to George Bush while he was Governor of Texas is of renewed importance after Bush...

The US Supreme Court Monday reversed the death sentence of a Texas man because jurors were not instructed to consider mitigating evidence when deliberating on the sentence. LaRoyce Lathair Smith was convicted of murdering a former co-worker during an...

Second Lt. Erick J. Anderson has been charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder for the shooting of a wounded Iraqi man, the US military said Monday. The military has been investigating whether Anderson gave permission...

Peter Friedman, Case Western Reserve Law School:"Alberto Gonzalez, the nominee to be chief law enforcement officer of the land, prepared 57 confidential memos on the merits of granting death-row inmates clemency. 56 of the inmates were executed. As Philip Carter...

Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys of the Northern District of Illinois found two US-based Islamic charities liable for damages Wednesday in the 1996 shooting death in Israel of an American teenager, David Boim. Keys held Texas-based Holy Land Foundation and...

Gay-rights supporters in Georgia have filed a lawsuit over the ban on same-sex marriage voted into the Georgia constitution in last Tuesday's election. The constitutional amendment at issue, which only asked if voters wanted to define marriage as between...

Two of the largest textbook publishers - Holt, Rinehart and Winston and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill - have agreed to change health-related textbooks in Texas to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The Texas Board of Education...

N.W. and J.R. et al. v. Attorney General of Canada et al., November 5, 2004 [ruling that the existing common law definition of marriage limited to unions between a man and a woman is unconstitutional, and making Saskatchwan the seventh...

A man once ranked as the eighth-most prolific spammer in the world by Internet watchdog Spamhaus has been sentenced to nine years in a Virginia prison for sending hundreds of thousands of unwanted e-mail messages. Jeremy Jaynes, the first...