A federal appeals court in Chicago has thrown out a lawsuit filed by student journalists at Governors State University who claimed that the Dean of Student Affair's demand to review their newspaper before it went to press...

Edgar Ray Killen has been convicted of three counts of manslaughter in connection with the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. The conviction came on the 41st anniversary of the rights workers disappearance and a...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urged judges on Tuesday to adhere to federal sentencing guidelines, citing a growing disparity since the US Supreme Court invalidated mandatory guidelines in US v. Booker . Addressing the National Center for Victims of...

In a speech to the Philadelphia Bar Association Monday Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter implied that he does not expect to see the resignation of any Supreme Court Justice by the end of the current term....

People v. Black, Supreme Court of California, June 20, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Iran's Interior Ministry Tuesday warned of the danger of fraud in Friday's scheduled run-off presidential vote, with a spokesman referring darkly to "some people who are ready to do anything to stay in power." The...

Abdel Hussein Shandal, Iraq's Sunni justice minister, accused the US on Tuesday of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein. While he said he expects Saddam's trial for war crimes to be over by...

A federal immigration judge ruled on Monday that John Demjanjuk , who lost his US citizenship for serving as a guard at a concentration camp, can be deported. The case dates back to 1977 [Cleveland Plain...

Luxembourg leaders say they will stick to their original plan for a July 10 referendum on the embattled European Union constitution . Following popular rejection of the charter in France and the Netherlands, seven other European countries...

British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday announced a government plan to abolish jury trials in complicated fraud cases. The move follows the collapse of a fraud trial earlier this year, partly because of jury...