Reaction to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom report outlining his plans to reform the UN has been mixed. Annan is calling for an expanded Security Council membership, the establishment of a new Human Rights Council to replace the current Commission on Human Rights, clarification on the use of military force, a condemnation of [...]

CBS WTSP-TV 10 in Tampa is reporting that US District Judge James Whittemore has refused to order the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, saying that the brain-damaged Florida woman's parents had not established a "substantial likelihood of success" at trial on the merits of their arguments. 7:40 AM ET – Read Judge Whittemore's 13-page [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, March 22. The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first case, Tory v. Cochran , 03-1488, the Court will consider whether a permanent injunction in a defamation [...]

Schiavo v. Schiavo, complaint by Terri Schiavo's parents to the US District Court, Middle District of Florida, seeking a temporary restraining order allowing re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube pending federal review of her case, March 21, 2005. Read the full text of the complaint . Michael Schiavo's brief in opposition is also available. Reported [...]

Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population, Pew Hispanic Center, Jeffrey S. Passel, March 21, 2005 . Excerpt: As of March 2004, there were an estimated 10.3 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States. A comparison to past estimates derived with the same methodology shows that the undocumented population has grown [...]

French lawmakers are expected on Tuesday to strike the final blow to the nation's maligned 35-hour work week , ending the national experiment lauded by workers but criticized as a drain on the country's economy. With national unemployment at 10 percent , lawmakers say that the legislation, which was originally intended to force mass hiring, [...]

Peggy McGuiness, Missouri Columbia School of Law: "Kofi Annan is scheduled to announce in a talk to the General Assembly today that he will push for major reform at the UN, including replacing the HR Commission with a HR council, expanding membership of the Security Council from 15 to 24, making troops serving UN missions [...]

Stephen Bainbridge : "Now that Congress has approved the legislation to give federal courts jurisdiction over the Terry Schiavo case, I am finding myself oddly unable to reach a definitive assessment of that action. As I see it, Congress' act implicates four first principles I hold dear: The culture of life; Limited government; Federalism; The [...]

CBS-10 TV in Tampa is reporting that US District Judge James Whittemore has ended this afternoon's hearing on Terri Schiavo's parents' petition for the re-insertion of her feeding tube pending a federal hearing of her case without making a ruling or even setting a timeframe for a ruling. Attorneys appearing before Judge Whittemore made impassioned [...]

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, former HealthSouth Corp. chief financial officer Weston Smith has testified that former CEO Richard Scrushy made all decisions at the company. The testimony undermines Scrushy's defense that he was unaware of the massive accounting fraud at the company. Read the Scrushy indictment . Reuters has more. In other [...]