The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi v. IndyMac MBS, Inc. to rule on the statute of limitations in class action suits. In...
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Fernandez v. California that police may search a home without a warrant over the objection of one occupant if that occupant has been removed from...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) program of collecting phone call data is likely unconstitutional. Judge Richard Leon ruled in...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Saudi Arabia . Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood had been held since 2002, but...
The Belgian Senate voted Thursday to allow euthanasia for terminally ill minors. The legislation would extend a 2002 law that allows euthanasia for terminally ill adults to minors with "constant...
Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland will soon be able to adopt children, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Health Minister Edwin Poots , finding that it did not...
A judge for South Korea's Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by Samsung to bans sales of certain Apple products in the country. Samsung claimed that Apple had infringed three patents with products such...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez the court will determine whether a district court considering a petition under the Hague...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Kansas v. Cheever that the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from introducing evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation of a criminal defendant to...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the consolidated cases of Environmental Protection Agency v. EME Homer City Generation and American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation [transcript,...
