The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Philip Morris v. Jackson , declining to determine whether a state court erred in certifying a class of smokers...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Monday blocked two sections of the state's controversial immigration bill that was signed into law last month [JURIST...
The US Supreme Court , ruled Monday in a per curiam opinion in US v. Juvenile Male that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had no authority to rule that the requirements of...
Prominent Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was released from prison on Sunday after serving three years for a subversion conviction. Hu was formally charged in February 2008 and subsequently sentenced to more than...
Fifteen associates of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo were charged on Sunday with crimes allegedly committed as a result of the country's post-election violence that has been ongoing since last November....
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Goodyear v. Brown that foreign subsidiaries of the American corporation Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company are...
A Tunisian appeals court on Saturday upheld the conviction of Imed Trabelsi, businessman and nephew of ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali . The 14th Criminal Chamber of the Tunis Court of Appeal...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday began the initial hearings in the trial of four former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime [JURIST news archive;...
The UN on Friday announced its approval of the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes, former chief of staff of Guatemalan...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday announced that it plans to send a panel to investigate the human rights situation in Yemen . Three OHCHR experts will travel...
