New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a brief with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . DOMA denies federal recognition of...
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the right not to hold political opinions should be protected in the same manner as the right to affirmatively hold a political, religious or other belief....
The Scottish government announced Wednesday that it plans to bring forward a draft bill that will recognize same-sex marriages with the same legal rights belonging to married heterosexual couples in the country. The measures are expected to...
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on Wednesday invalidated the country's election law as unconstitutional. Germany has a complex system that sometimes creates extra "overhang" parliamentary seats that benefit the larger parties,...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia released an accused Somali pirate Tuesday after prosecutors failed to produce sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. English-speaking Somali citizen Ali Mohamed Ali, 50, was...
A senior Russian judge on Tuesday ordered a court to review the appeal of jailed former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky . It remains to be seen whether the order is on a legal technicality...
The Australian government has discontinued proceedings against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks over the profits from his memoir. Australia's Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) decided to halt the...
The Constitutional Court of Romania on Tuesday upheld a change to the country's referendum law that will lengthen voting times by four extra hours. The court ruled that the voting hours extension is constitutional [Bloomberg...
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday unanimously granted a stay of execution for death row inmate Warren Lee Hill 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection ....
The recent wave of violence in Iraq was condemned Monday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) . UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Political Affairs Gyoray Busztin denounced the...
