The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) case on Monday, reasoning that alien minors do not have a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. The court ruled [opinion,...
The European Court of Justice on Thursday struck down a sexual orientation test used to consider asylum seekers' applications but upheld the use of experts to determine credibility of claims made in the application. The case arose...
A Brazilian federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld former president and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's corruption conviction, which could prevent him from continuing his election campaign. Lula was convicted in July on several corruption...
Vermont became the ninth state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so by legislation on Monday after Phil Scott signed the bill passed earlier this month. The law legalized possession of marijuana equal to one...
The Supreme Court of Spain on Monday refused to reissue the arrest warrant for Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont. Puigdemont fled Spain in October after the Spanish government overtook Catalonia. He...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday: one concerning overtime-pay, and another concerning constitutional protections to criminal defendants. The first case, Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , asks the court two questions. First, whether...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a 2014 citizen vote to amend the state constitution to remove the right to abortion. The question before the court was not whether such...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute , a case challenging Ohio's voter registration maintenance policy, which permits the government to remove individuals from the voter registration list after...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in two original jurisdiction cases concerning state disputes over water rights and allocation. In the first case, the court heard arguments concerning water rights to the Rio Grande River....
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review in two cases challenging a Mississippi law that would permit businesses and government employees to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to protect those individuals'...
