The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Janus Capital Group v. First Derivative Traders that a service provider cannot be held primarily liable in a...
The US Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court decision in Flores-Villar v. United States upholding a gender-based distinction in two former sections of the Immigration...
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan to try six paramilitary forces in the shooting death of an unarmed man under the Pakistan Anti-Terrorism Ordinance of 1999 . On Friday, several paramilitary...
The World Justice Project on Monday released its second annual report ranking countries by their adherence to the rule of law. The Rule of Law Index (RLI) is a tool by which the...
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday demanded an explanation of an incident in which Pakistani security forces shot and killed an unarmed man. Several paramilitary soldiers opened fire on an unarmed, 22-year-old man in Benazir...
A federal jury on Thursday convicted Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Chicago resident with Canadian citizenship, on two counts of planning to attack a Copenhagen newspaper, but found him not guilty on charges of helping to plan the 2008 Mumbai...
The Alabama Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill contains no exceptions for cases of rape...
The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday urged the US not to seek the death penalty for high-value Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , accused planning the USS Cole [JURIST...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of State (DOS) for failing to disclose information about the government's "War on Terror" efforts, even...
A Munich court on Thursday denied Spain's request to extradite retired US autoworker and convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk to stand trial in Madrid. The Spanish National Court in January sought Demjanjuk's extradition so...
