Some 450 high-risk prisoners and over 1,000 state inmates with various offenses were freed as unsupervised parolee under a program created in January last year to ease overcrowding.
A Wisconsin judge struck down a law paring back most public employees unions' collective bargaining rights.
A federal judge's declaration Wednesday that Jared Loughner is unfit for trial will likely send the accused Arizona shooter into a treatment program aimed at rehabilitating him so he can be tried.
A federal judge decided that Jared Loughner, accused of killing six when he opening fire on a public appearance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson, is not competent to stand trial.
A federal judge's declaration Wednesday that Jared Loughner is unfit for trial will likely send the accused Arizona shooter into a treatment program aimed at rehabilitating him so he can be tried.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie slammed a state Supreme Court ruling ordering him to restore $500 million in education funding, saying the court was exceeding its authority and forcing the state to spend foolishly.
Crowded prisons are not merely a Third World phenomenon as a recent U.S Court ruling cited California prisons for violating the U.S. constitution by packing too many prisoners into already overcrowded cells.
A former editor of one Brazil's biggest newspapers has been ordered jailing by the top court of the country for murdering his ex-girlfriend 11 years ago.
In what is being billed as one of the biggest prison release orders in history, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered California government to reduce its prison population by nearly 33,000 over a period of two years to avoid serious constitutional violations.
Yesterday's Supreme Court verdict affirming that California must reduce its exploding prison population by over 30,000 inmates raises a pressing question: where will they go?
Apple's letter to Lodsys, asking that it cease threatening app developers with litigation.
The Supreme Court today upheld a California court's mandate to reduce the state's prison population by some 32,000 inmates, saying deplorable conditions in overcrowded prisons are unconstitutional.
In a hearing at New York's Supreme Court, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail and released from the Rikers Island prison facility on Thursday.
The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah's Witness' constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled.
LimeWire, a major peer-to-peer (P2P) company that was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of being a platform for illegal music transfers, has been let off lightly as it settled the dispute at $105 million, far short of $1.4 billion that was first sought by the plaintiffs.
Following a 5 year legal standoff between peer-to-peer (P2P) boss LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), the two sides have agreed to settle the music piracy dispute for $105 million.
John Demjanjuk has been convicted of helping Nazi in massacring 28,000 Jews at Sobibor camp during Holocaust, to five years in prison by a German court on Thursday.
The Supreme Court of India has stated that people convicted of committing “honor killings” could face execution.
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday stayed Allahabad High Court’s verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute.
A woman who accused American Apparel Inc Chief Executive Dov Charney of keeping her as a teenage sex slave is now suing him and his clothing retailer for defamation and invasion of privacy.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that bringing change had been more difficult than a lot of us expected, after a group donors interrupted a campaign speech to protest in song the detention of the soldier that allegedly released a trove of government cables which eventually were obtained and disseminated by Wikileaks.
Law professor Larry E. Ribstein says the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-to-4 ruling in favor of corporate speech has sparked a furor among pundits and the public that has shown little signs of slowing down.
