Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C.--In mid-October, Congress passed the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998, which would require federal district courts to authorize…

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…