Forbidden Love still valid, says lawyer
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Author Norma Khouri&#39;s &quot;true&quot; account of an honour killing in Jordan was still a valid factual work despite claims it was fiction, her lawyer said.
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A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules.
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Recording secret videos of sex with your partner is not illegal, Italy's supreme court has ruled.
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The Supreme Court today sidestepped a dispute over same-sex marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation&#39;s only law sanctioning such unions.
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Committed gay couples can be  granted the same rights as married heterosexuals but should not  be allowed to marry, California's top legal official said in a  court filing on Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman do not violate California's constitution, but neither would a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, according to the state attorney general.    Attorney General Bill Lockyer issued the opinion Friday, a long-awaited response to a pair of lawsuits out of San Francisco challenging laws that ban gay marriage...
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A new state civil unions law has failed to ensure that same-sex couples in New Jersey enjoy the same rights as married heterosexuals, an official report said on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - California's constitution permits laws against gay marriage, the state's attorney general declared Friday in a long-awaited legal opinion that sought to avoid offending either side of the debate.    While acknowledging that "committed and loving relationships between two individuals deserve recognition under California law," Attorney General Bill Lockyer said it was up to the voters or the Legislature to decide questions about whether gay couples should be allowed to marry...
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Attorneys hoped to unearth some of the secrets that Lady Sarah McCorquodale may have been privy to  -  she didn't disappoint
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The CIA's top lawyer said Tuesday he did not object to a 2002 memo authorizing interrogation techniques that stop just short of causing a sensation of impending organ failure or even death.
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A lawyer for the tobacco industry  told a federal court on Wednesday that cigarette companies have  never engaged in a conspiracy to mislead the public about the  dangers of smoking.
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Unwritten assurances from Enron Corp. to keep trying to sell Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.&#39;s $7 million interest in three power-generating barges wasn&#39;ta &quot;legal impediment&quot; to making that investment, an in-house lawyer for the brokerage testified Monday.
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The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over same-sex marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation&#39;s only law sanctioning such unions.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - An attorney was sentenced to a year and a half in jail for ambushing dozens of women while nude and taking pictures of their shocked expressions.    But Stephen Linnen, 34, won't lose his law license and will be allowed to leave jail to continue work as a law clerk...
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A couple are found not guilty of causing the death of a three-year-old boy they planned to adopt.
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Defense attorneys for a polygamous-sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her older cousin began their case Tuesday, trying to debunk the contention that his church places women in submissive roles.
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A British couple who won a reprieve to keep their retirement villa in Turkish-held northern Cyprus should refrain from uncorking the champagne just yet, a lawyer for the Greek Cypriot trying to reclaim his property has said.