The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, ruled Thursday morning that New York's ban on same-sex marriage is not unconstitutional. The ruling comes in four consolidated cases where...
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CNN is reporting that former Enron founder Kenneth Lay is dead. According to a spokesman for Lay's family, Lay suffered a massive heart attack in Aspen, Colorado on Tuesday evening. Lay,...
Wire services are reporting that the US Supreme Court has ruled that military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are illegal under military law and the Geneva Conventions , holding in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Arizona's law governing insanity defenses in criminal cases, ruling in Clark v. Arizona that the state's approach does not violate constitutional...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday held in the consolidated cases of Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson that suppression of statements given to the police is...
The US Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks Wednesday that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections could set regulations forbidding the most difficult inmates from reading...
The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry and three other consolidated cases that only one of the new voting districts...
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution adopting the report of Swiss legislator Dick Marty accusing European countries of colluding with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in transporting...
The US Supreme Court on Monday handed down decisions in five cases, including Randall v. Sorrell , consolidated with two other cases, where the Court struck down Vermont's Act...
European Union diplomats on Thursday agreed to revive an agreement with the United States that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the US. The EU and US first reached such an...
