The only case in which the U.S. Supreme Court has referred to the "neutral reportage" privilege was in 1989's HarteHanks Communications Inc. v. Connaughton, which involved a judicial candidate who sued a newspaper for publishing an accusation by a grand jury witness that he...

William F. Current {Free For All, Oct. 28} is wrong in his assertion that marijuana, cocaine and heroin have never been legal in the United States. He is technically correct about crack, but only because that particular form of cocaine is a recent invention....

NAME — Salim Ahmed Hamdan.AGE — U.S. military records show Hamdan is about 37.NATIONALITY — Yemeni.HOW HE GOT TO GUANTANAMO — Afghan troops captured Hamdan in southern Afghanistan on Nov. 24, 2001, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information...

Leading historical groups are seeking the release of grand jury records in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose espionage trial for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union became a defining moment in the Cold War.Fifty-five years after their execution, historians still debate...

A time line of law from the Magna Carta to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.