In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...

Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...

In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...

Following up on a report Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, Serbian Minister for Human Rights Rasim Ljajic said Friday that Serbian TV's broadcast of a disturbing video of six Bosnian Muslim youths being...

A Miami federal judge has ruled that Florida violated the terms of a 1991 agreement to reduce phosphorus levels in the Everglades. The US Supreme Court previously remanded the case after hearing an appeal [JURIST...

Jurors in the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy told US District Court Judge Karon Bowdre in a note Friday that they were deadlocked with regard to all charges . Scrushy, who has...

Eight men appeared in a South African court Friday to face charges of breaking the country's anti-mercenary laws, enforced under the Foreign Military Assistance Act . The South African men were freed in May, along with 53 other suspected...

A Syrian man wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings appeared in a British court on Friday as Spain requested his extradition to face charges. Moutaz Almallah Dabas was arrested in England last month, accused...

Army Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, senior military commander of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, voiced frustration Thursday at press and rights group portrayals of abuse at the facility. Hood's comments follow a since-retracted Newsweek article [official website; JURIST...

Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the retrial of former Tyco International Ltd. top executives L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz. The first proceeding ended in a mistrial last April because of outside pressure...