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JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law says that a recent district court decision requiring the FDA to begin proceedings to ban the agricultural use of certain antibiotics may be a welcome opportunity to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that Syrian army and security officers have been engaged in the torture of children . The allegations stem from HRW's documentation of cases in which children were reportedly detained, tortured...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Goldman of the University of Michigan says that fetal personhood laws, which would declare a fetus to be a person from the time of conception, would have a wide range of consequences for women's medical care,...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday ruled that, under European law, a patent cannot be issued for any process which involves removing a stem cell from and then destroying a human...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday dismissed an appeal attempting to overturn April's decision that ended an injunction on federal funding of embryonic stem...

The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned last year's ruling that placed a preliminary injunction on federal funding of embryonic stem cell ...

Colorado voters struck down a ballot initiative Tuesday that would have amended the state's constitution to extend rights to fetuses and would have effectively outlawed abortion . Proposed Amendment 62 [Project...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a stay Tuesday allowing federal funding for stem cell research to continue pending a full appeal. After hearing oral arguments...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the Obama administration's request for an emergency stay Thursday, lifting the ban on stem cell research . The Obama administration sought the stay...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied a motion to stay a preliminary injunction issued in August barring government funding of stem cell...