The California Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that constitutional challenges to Proposition 8 , which amended the California Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage , lacked merit and that the amendment stands as...
US President Barack Obama on Monday announced Sonia Sotomayor as his nomination for the US Supreme Court . Sotomayor, currently a justice for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...
US military lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad asked the Supreme Court of Afghanistan Monday to demand his release from the facility. The lawyers have petitioned the Afghan...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday affirmed a district court ruling that tobacco manufacturers conducted a scheme to deceive American consumers as to the health effects of...
The South Korean Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling allowing a brain-damaged patient the right to die . The patient, a 76-year old woman on life-support at a Yonsei University...
Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. A federal jury...
Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Thursday defended national security policies of the Bush administration. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) , Cheney criticized many of the security policies...
A French Internet piracy law has been challenged on constitutional grounds by the opposition Socialist party in front of the Constitutional Council . The bill, introduced...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that accused bomber and Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani will be prosecuted in a US federal court for his alleged role...
The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a same-sex marriage bill after it was amended at the request of Governor John Lynch . The bill was defeated by a 186-188...
