A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday convicted financier Allen Stanford on charges of orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme affecting investors in both...
The US Supreme Court announced Monday that they will rehear arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , a case dealing with corporate liability for human rights violations occurring overseas. The court originally took the case in...
A group of shareholders in the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on Monday filed a USD $67 billion lawsuit against TEPCO officials for failing to prevent the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant [IAEA...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Martel v. Clair that, when ruling on a defendant's motion to replace counsel in a capital case, "courts should employ the same 'interests of justice'...
Israel's Ramat Gan Family Court ruled Sunday that a lesbian couple can both be recognized as mothers of a child they had together. The women received permission from the Health Ministry in 2006 to conceive the child...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Freeman v. Quicken Loans, Inc. the court heard arguments on whether Section 8(b) of the Real Estate Settlement...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in Fisher v. University of Texas to determine whether the court's decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8 , California's ban on same-sex marriage , is unconstitutional. The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the...
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in Reynolds v. United States that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require pre-act offenders to register before the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in United States v. Jones that the government's attachment of a global positioning system (GPS) device to a vehicle, and its use of that...
