About 70 animal rights protestors marched and chanted in protest outside a Trenton New Jersey courtroom Wednesday as the trial of seven activists charged with domestic terrorism began. The activists are all members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty , a group opposed to the animal testing practices of British company Huntingdon Life Sciences which has [...]

After the second No to the EU constitution in four days was handed down by Dutch voters Wednesday , European leaders are struggling to keep the charter alive. Current EU President and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker has said that the double rejection from France and the Netherlands has put Europe in "a dangerous [...]

United States v. Ameline, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, June 1, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

AP is reporting that President Bush intends to nominate Congressman Christopher Cox (R-CA) as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Republican officials. Current SEC Chairman William Donaldson announced earlier Wednesday that he would be stepping down effective June 30 .

HB 1041, Women's Health Care, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

AFL-CIO v. Chao, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt: Because section 208 limits the Secretary's authority to promulgate rules requiring financial reporting to what she determines is "necessary to prevent" circumvention or evasion of a union's Title II reporting requirements, we hold that to the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that federal inmates in western states within its jurisdiction may challenge their sentences. The case, United States v. Ameline , follows the US Supreme Court ruling earlier this year in United States v. Booker where the high court ruled that federal judges were not [...]

Chile's National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, known familiarly as the Valech Commission, released a new report Wednesday indicating that children under the age of 12 were tortured during the rule of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet . The commission was created in 2003 to gather testimony of persons imprisoned and tortured under [...]

A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks, whose trial before a US military commission has been suspended pending the outcome of a process appeal by another [...]

US District Judge Tom S. Lee ruled Wednesday that Mississippi's law restricting abortions performed after the first-trimester violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The Jackson Women's Health Organization challenged a July 1, 2004 amendment to Mississippi Code § 41-75-1 that required abortions after the first trimester be performed in a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical facility. The [...]