Vatican Launches Legal Defense Over US Lawsuit (The Huffington Post)

What's Your Reaction? VATICAN CITY â€" Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical stimulate abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that the church hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him deposed.

More in hospital after using 'legal high' drug (Yorkshire Post)

NEW calls have been made to ban mephedrone after a hospital near the town where a young woman died after taking the deadly legal high confirmed it has treated a number of user

Pa. AG outlines legal challenge to health care law (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says he's joined a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the new federal health-care law because he says he believes the government shouldn't be forcing people to buy health insurance.

NY court to consider legal services for the poor (WCAX-TV Vermont)

Associated Press - March 23, 2010 5:55 AM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court is hearing arguments in a class-action causa that accuses the state of failing to provide effective legal...

Modi will exercise his legal rights: BJP (The Hindu)

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi â€" who has been summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to look into some Gujarat 2002 riots cases â€" will decide on how to respond on the basis of legal advice given to him, the Bharatiya Janata Party said here on Thursday.

Free legal aid for May 10 teachers (Manila Standard Today)

THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Department of Education signed an agreement on free legal aid for public school teachers who might get involved in court cases for their election-related duties.

Ruiz' Blood Alcohol Over Legal Limit (Albuquerque Journal)

Vehicular homicide suspect James Ruiz was nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit the night he allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in Santa Fe Friday night, killing two teenage sisters, according to state Department of Health spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer. A blood sample taken from Ruiz revealed that his blood alcohol concentration was 0.22 percent, well above the state's presumed level of ...

Legal challenge over Yarl's Wood protest (BBC News)

BBC East speaks to those involved in recent protests at Yarl's Wood immigration edifice as lawyers increase a legal challenge in the High Court.

Legal issues stall Syracuse building's demolition (The News-Times)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) â€" Legal issues are stalling the demolition of a crumbling downtown Syracuse building that has forced the closure of a section of interstate highway, disrupting the daily commute for tens of thousands of people.

NRZ leader in slander suit requests legal aid from city (The New Britain Herald)

NEW BRITAIN â€" A resolution that would require the city to provide Richard Marzi, president of the North-Oak Revitalization Zone, legal counsel of his choosing at city expense was tabled without any action Wednesday.

Microsoft to use legal strategy to bust botnets (MalaysiaNews.net)

Microsoft will use the same legal tactic it deployed successfully last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centres to go after other botnets.