By MICHAEL KIRKLAND WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Sometime soon, the U.S. Supreme Court again will be obliged to rule on the constitutionality of a religious symbol on public land.

Local storytellers, including Helen Wise, of West Windsor, will join their counterparts across the globe this weekend to share their art and raise money for important causes.

Two tenacious Washington lawyers have the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in their sights—and they just might take it down

Two very different cases, the Jose Padilla case and the "balloon boy" case, cast new light on a legal issue that has been simmering for years: when, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading or being found guilty. A model law tackling the issue will go before the American Bar Association for endorsement in February, and then would be put before ...

From the marbled corridors of Congress to the tony salons of Georgetown, liberal lawmakers are abuzz with ideas on how to rein in U.S. corporations. Yet over in the courts, two conservative lawyers are mounting a serious challenge to a law, enacted earlier in the decade, that imposed tough restrictions on American businesses. A ruling in their favor could deal a serious blow to the pro ...

In a speech to the Federalist Society, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. spoke of the importance of judges interpreting "what the law is and not what it should be." He stood up for his newest colleague, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who he said had been criticized during her confirmation hearings for saying that her tenure on the high court would be characterized by fidelity to the law. Alito ...

This Week in History is researched and written by Frank Tomaino. E-mail him at ftomaino@uticaod.com.

For the first time in the event's history, the GW Law School's annual Van Vleck Moot Court in January will host an all-female panel of judges, law school Dean Frederick Lawrence said last week.

Comments made by Justices during a Nov. 9 hearing on Bilski v. Kappos — a case that could end up impacting the patentability of genes — suggest that the US Supreme Court is struggling to define the circumstances under which processes not linked to a machine or to the transformation of physical matter are patentable.

In 2006, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett Grayson lined up more than 30 jailhouse informants to testify that they had sold drugs to Church Point, La., homemaker Ann Colomb and her three sons.