In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz writes that the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Ninth Circuit's "provocation doctrine" on the ground that it was inconsistent with ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's government and its ally Russia accused Washington on Thursday of concocting a "provocation" in Syria, which would then be blamed on President Bashar Assad's government as ...

It is part of my contract as a contributor writer for America to periodically provoke. When Matt Malone, S.J., first invited me to join as a columnist several years ago, he asked me to surprise my ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 to strike down [transcript, PDF] the “provocation rule” created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. On Wednesday, March 22, the eight-justice court will hear argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, a Fourth Amendment ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Even though a police officer might ultimately be justified in shooting a person during a confrontation, can the officer still be held liable if he was found to have recklessly or ...

WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence called the North Korea’s latest missile test a “provocation” and pledged the Trump Administration’s commitment to freedom prevailing in the region “has never ...

Police and CrimeStoppers are asking for the public’s help in finding a 24-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a 51-year-old man who died last week – a week after being assaulted in a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Amid protests breaking out around the world, Sumaya Awad explains the background to Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. THIS MONTH marks the 30th anniversary of the first ...

Pyongyang has loudly denounced the decision by the United States to relist North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, with a foreign ministry spokesman warning it was a “serious provocation.” In a ...

In March, I wrote about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Los Angeles County v. Mendez, which was a challenge to the “provocation rule,” a legal concept exclusive to the U.S. Court of ...