Former FBI No. 2 W. Mark Felt , also known as "Deep Throat", is not likely to be prosecuted for revealing information to reporters during the Watergate scandal according to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, speaking Friday. Felt's identity was revealed earlier this week in a Vanity Fair article, but the incident occurred 30 years [...]

Koran Inquiry: Description of Incidents, US Southern Command, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt: During an interrogation in FEB 02, a detainee complained that guards at Camp X-ray kicked the Koran of a detainee in a neighboring cell four to five days earlier.The interrogator reported the first detainee's complaint in a memorandum dated 27 FEB 02. [...]

Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt: The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion that we accept H.B. 2247 as an interim step toward a full remedy pales in light of the compelling arguments of immediate need made by the plaintiffs and amici [...]

AP is reporting that the Pentagon has confirmed that a US soldier at the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay kicked a detainee's Koran and that a guard's urine was splashed on the Islamic sacred text. 8:35 PM ET – These instances and several others in contravention of US military rules for treating the Koran [...]

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 funding to be used primarily for programs aiding special education, low income students, and bilingual learning. The ruling is the [...]

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 caught teaching the Koran outside of approved religious educational institutions. Under old Turkish law, schools and religious educational organizations wishing to teach [...]

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 judge must approve the settlement, which would end a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 100 alleged victims who accuse [...]

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 slaughtered by Serb paramilitaries may change public opinion and lead to the arrest of the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, [...]

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 . The decision by the 11th Circuit resulted from a lawsuit by the Miccosukee Indian tribe that claimed their reservation in [...]

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 been accused of mail and wire fraud as well as money laundering, is the first CEO to be charged under the [...]