Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran may reconsider its participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but would not immediately withdraw from the pact. Speaking on the anniversary of...

Former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland was released from federal prison Friday after serving ten months of a one year sentence he received after pleading guilty to corruption charges ...

American Bar Association president Michael S. Greco said Friday that American civil liberties were under stress in a time of conflict, but that policymakers should resist the temptation to "take shortcuts with the Constitution." He made his...

ACORN v. Blanco, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, February 9, 2006 [lawsuit alleging that Louisiana's emergency election plan for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina will disenfranchise or severely burden the franchise of thousands of displaced...

Revised Interim Guidelines Concerning Free Exercise of Religion in the Air Force, United States Air Force, February 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the guidelines. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Saddam Hussein defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use...

The Advancement Project , a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging election plans for New Orleans , alleging that the plan puts too much emphasis on absentee voting and would keep blacks out...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, a California law that makes it illegal to throw away electronic waste went into effect Thursday. Under the law , residents will have to take most consumer electronic equipment, including computers, printers, VCRs,...

Hong Kong High Court Justice Michael Hartmann has ruled that an executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is unconstitutional. Instead of immediately repealing it,...

Conrad Black , former chairman of media company Hollinger International , told a US federal judge in Chicago Friday that he would prefer to have a trial soon. Black appeared at a court hearing held to...