The European Parliament on Tuesday agreed to the establishment of a common patent system despite lack of accord from Spain and Italy. EU member states have attempted to establish a uniform patent system for several...
Federal District Judge Larry Burns ordered on Friday that the federal mug shots of accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner temporarily be kept from public view. Defense counsel for Loughner filed an emergency motion to...
A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan on Friday ruled that Wal-Mart did not wrongly fire an employee who had been using medical...
The Iraqi government is operating secret prisons, and suspects held in Iraqi custody have been systematically tortured since before the 2003 US invasion, according to a Tuesday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "Broken...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the health care reform law . Judge Keith Starrett ruled that...
The UK government's independent reviewer of terror laws on Thursday published a report saying that rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made it difficult to remove foreign terror suspects from Britain. Control...
The Arizona House of Representatives and Senate on Thursday introduced bills challenging the right to US citizenship for the children of legal and illegal immigrants born in the state. The proposed legislation, House Bill 2562...
The Wyoming House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that would prevent Wyoming from recognizing same-sex marriages and civil unions performed out-of-state. House Bill 74, Validity of Marriage, was passed by a 32-27...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled Tuesday to uphold the affirmative action policy of considering race in student admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT)...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday commenced the trial of Idelphonse Nizeyimana on charges related to his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Nizeyimana, nicknamed "Butcher of Butare"...
