South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday that they will open a criminal investigation into South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk , a day after an investigation concluded that Hwang's acclaimed research on stem cells was fake. Reports suggest that prosecutors could pursue charges of fraud and embezzlement after Hwang won more than $60 million in government funding [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states have no immunity from private lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if the state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment. In United States v. Georgia , 04-1203, the Court unanimously ruled that where lawsuits for monetary damages were permitted under the ADA, states were not [...]

Two British officials charged with leaking a UK government memo in which President Bush reportedly suggested bombing the offices of Arab satellite news channel Aljazeera will stand trial by the end of the month, the judge in the trial ordered at a hearing Tuesday. Judge Timothy Workman of the UK Central Criminal Court ordered a [...]

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld a law that requires airlines to pay compensation to passengers who experience long flight delays, overbooking and cancellation on flights to and from the European Union. The International Air Transport Association and the European Low Fares Airline Association had challenged the EU regulation, arguing the law was [...]

US District Judge Sim Lake on Monday refused to dismiss the criminal case against former Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling Chronicle profile], saying that the defense had failed to prove that there was "deliberate, systematic prosecutorial misconduct" that has interfered with the defendants' efforts to prepare for trial. Lay and Skilling [...]

Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping . While members of the court declined to comment on the meeting, the judges were expected to voice strong concerns about the [...]

Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may face new charges in Turkey of draft dodging and escaping military custody after he is released from prison on Thursday , an official said Monday. Agca shot the Pope after escaping from a Turkish military prison in 1979, where he [...]

Transcript of Day 1 of confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., nominated to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, US Senate Judiciary Committee, January 9, 2006. Read the full text transcript as provided to AP by CQ Transcriptions, LLC .

General Sir Michael Rose , a retired British military leader and the former UN military commander in Bosnia, has said that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for making the decision to go to war in Iraq based on flawed claims that the regime there possessed weapons of mass destruction. In a BBC [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Wermiel of American University Washington College of Law says that it is important to watch not only the posturing that began yesterday inside the hearing room for Judge Samuel Alito, but also to monitor the spin, polling and strategy that occurs outside… The political ritual that Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) has [...]