Policy

CALIFORNIA--A special panel of three federal judges in San Francisco ruled in late September that a provision of the Communications…

SECOND CIRCUIT--Publisher Steve Forbes was sued in late August by the Federal Election Commission, which claimed that Forbes' magazine columns…

THIRD CIRCUIT--Officials at the State Correctional Institution in Greene, Pa., have been ordered by the U.S. Court of Appeals in…

IOWA--A school board hearing on a student's proposed suspension, which the student wishes to be open, may not be closed…

NEW JERSEY--Imprisoned sex offenders may continue to receive and possess sexually oriented material, a federal district judge in Newark decided…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--An amendment to the Defense Spending Authorization Bill that would prevent senators from anonymously placing holds on legislation was…

NINTH CIRCUIT--A ban prohibiting Arizona prisoners from possessing any pictures depicting frontal nudity is unconstitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals…

CALIFORNIA--After being amended several times, legislation attempting to make it a crime for the Ku Klux Klan to insert hate…

WASHINGTON--The state's stalking law does not intrude upon constitutionally protected behavior such as news gathering, the Washington Supreme Court ruled…

In late May the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decision of the federal court of appeals in…