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The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of which crimes are punishable by death. The court said in 1977 that execution was an “excessive penalty for the rapist who, as such, does not take human life.” But […]

Investigators from Scotland Yard today arrived in Pakistan to assist the investigation into the assassination of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The five investigators arrived at Islamabad airport but declined to speak to reporters. President Pervez Musharraf has asked for help from the British police amid accusations of lax government security when Bhutto was killed

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that the Justice Department had elevated its inquiry into the destruction of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation videotapes to a formal criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor. The announcement is the first indication that investigators have concluded on a preliminary basis that C.I.A. officers, possibly along with

When her three-year-old marriage broke up, the 44-year-old doctor assumed she and her ex would split their property and jointly parent their two children. Her stay-at-home spouse wanted sole custody and the right to move the children out of Massachusetts. In pretrial motions, both parents made the same argument to a judge: The children should

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that partners in a law firm operating as a limited liability partnership are not shielded from personal liability in disputes with each other. The court’s 5-2 decision in Ederer v. Gursky, 133, stems from a 2003 lawsuit filed by intellectual property lawyer Louis Ederer against his former

There’s been an awful lot written about what the legal profession can do to try to stop the flow of women leaving the profession after they have children and find 60-hour workweeks unsustainable. But I’ve seen very little written about how, once they’ve left the profession, firms can bring them back. After all, few women

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP was the top-ranked legal adviser on European mergers in 2007, with lawyers expecting the brisk pace of mid-sized corporate acquisitions to continue into the new year. “In Germany, we are running on full steam with a very hot two weeks at the end of the year and the same into January,”

Murdered former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave what would be one of her last in-depth interviews to More Magazine last October. Writer Amy Wilentz’s piece is in the current issue, on sale now. In it, Bhutto discusses her planned return to Pakistan. “Some of my friends think I’m mad to be going back,” Bhutto

Iraq’s government has backed a draft law that enables the release of thousands of suspected insurgents held captive by US and Iraqi forces. The amnesty law is thought to specify offences for which prisoners who have been held without charge can be freed. Parliament must debate the law on Sunday before it is ratified. The