Disclosure has often become an endpoint in the chain of responsibility, an act of compliance with the letter of the law rather than the spirit of transparency.

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News Analysis: Hard Truths About Disclosure

Says the law can be defended in court.

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Calif. Supreme Court Rules for Prop 8

Changes to the law on self defence are likely to have little or no impact on the justice system, according to the government’s own assessment of its policy.

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Defence law ‘will have no impact’

Facing condemnation from the West following the jailing of Yulia V. Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian government could decriminalize the law under which the opposition leader was prosecuted.

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Tymoshenko to Be Freed Soon, Her Daughter Says

President Obama plans to release states from some of the law’s obligations if they embrace his educational agenda.

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No Child Left Behind Waivers for States

The Oscar-winning Hurt Locker grossed $17 million at the U.S. box office, but now the film’s makers are filing a lawsuit for millions more in settlements, charging 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users with piracy. In March 2010, the law firm Dunlap, Grubb…

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‘Hurt Locker’ Makers Sue BitTorrent Users

Don’t be evil-but break the law? Sure, why not? Google is close to a settlement with the Justice Department in an investigation into illegal ads. The company allegedly made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that…

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Google to Settle Drug Ad Case

It was a show of epic proportions. With Cirque du Soleil-style dancers, eight costume changes and a stage fit for a disco queen, Kylie Minogue’s Saturday night concert at the Patriot Center was an escape to another world. Another world, that is, where svelte Greek warriors wear feathers, the law of gravity is defied and calories (apparently) don’t exist.

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Australia’s Kylie Minogue dazzles in her second stateside tour

Despite a court order blocking limits to collective bargaining rights, some lawmakers say that publication of the law means that it will take effect on Saturday.

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New Dispute in Wisconsin: Is Workers’ Law in Effect?

A week after Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill stripping public union workers of their collective-bargaining rights-prompting massive protests-a Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the law from taking effect. The order was…

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Wisc. Judge Blocks New Labor Law

Prosecutors say that handing out pamphlets on the courthouse steps violates the law against jury tampering.

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Jury Nullification Advocate Is Indicted

Why the law is such a fertile ground for TV drama

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Smooth as Silk

It’s not if, but when, the law banning openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the military will be repealed, say advocates and top administration officials.

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The reality of repealing ‘don’t ask’

Henry Valendia and Josh Vandiver legally married earlier this year in Connecticut-one of the states to allow gay marriages. It seems they still aren’t receiving equal protection under the law, however, as the Defense of Marriage Act will not allow…

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INS to Deport Married Gay Man

A grapefruit knife is “a knife” in the eyes of the law and cannot be sold to under-18s, a high court judge rules during a test case.

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Judge rules that grapefruit cutter is a ‘knife’