Chinese authorities have detained Zhu Jiuhi, a Beijing lawyer and activist for the development of rule of law after he attempted to file a landmark civil suit against the provincial government and lower-level governments for confiscating private investors' oil...

The author of the Vanity Fair article that on Tuesday revealed the long-secret identity of "Deep Throat" is a San Francisco lawyer who first learned in 2002 that the Watergate leaker was former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt...

After a protracted Senate battle over judicial nominees , President Bush Tuesday pledged to consult with members of the Senate on an upcoming nomination to the Supreme Court:I'm obviously going to spend a lot of...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday struck down part of the Bush administration's new financial disclosure requirements for unions, but upheld others. A majority of the three-judge panel found...

The Libyan Supreme Court has postponed until November 15 a ruling on the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted in May 2004 of purposely infecting 400 children with the virus that...

Chinese UN Ambassador Wang Guangya has said China is opposed to a recently-introduced resolution that would expand the UN Security Council to include Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. In an interview with AP...

Tory v. Cochran, Supreme Court of the United States, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt from the court's...

Andersen v. US, Supreme Court of the United States, May 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion...

"I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat", John D. O'Connor, Vanity Fair Magazine, July 2005 . Excerpt:I believe that Mark Felt is one of America's greatest...

Cutter v. Wilkinson, Supreme Court of the United States, May 31, 2005 [ruling that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 gave Congress the power to require officials of state and local prisons and jails to find...