Ibrahim Jaafari, Iraq's leading Shiite candidate for Prime Minister, said Saturday that he would introduce Sharia Islamic law and federalism if selected. Jaafari's Daawa party currently holds a majority of National Assembly seats...
The Hong Kong Bar Association Friday criticized the Hong Kong regional government's recent declaration that under the Hong Kong Basic Law the successor of a chief executive who steps down early shall serve out only the remainder...
Subpoenas of Michael and Terri Schiavo, House Government Reform Committee, March 18, 2005. Read the text of the subpoenas via Abstract Appeal. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Saturday's Los Angeles Times reports that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will propose significant changes to the organization at a General Assembly meeting Monday. According to a draft copy of Annan's scheduled Report on Larger Freedom [available on...
Former US attorney general John Ashcroft has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University , the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson [Regent University President...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered a review of the British government's decision last year to downgrade cannabis from a regulatory B class to a C class, the same as anabolic steriods and...
Schiavo v. The Honorable George W. Greer, et al., United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Tampa Division, Judge James S. Moody, March 18, 2005 [ruling denying petition for temporary injunction and petition for a writ of...
US v. Platte; US v. Hudson; US v. Gilbert, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, March 17, 2005 . Excerpt:Of course, whenever...
Former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland was sentenced Friday to one year in prison, four months of house arrest, three years probation, and an $82,000 fine after pleading guilty in December to a federal...
Wire services are quoting sources close to the case as saying that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been removed at the request of her husband acting on authority of a court order.4:15 PM - At a press conference still...