The US Supreme Court denied certiorari on Monday in Igartua v. United States, a case challenging Puerto Ricans' inability to vote in US presidential elections. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially on Monday reversed the district court's refusal to grant a temporary injunction for Apple against Samsung for...
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur of the occupied Palestinian territory , said Wednesday that he is "appalled" by "continuing human rights violations in Israeli prisons." Israeli prison authorities have taken punitive measures against the more...
The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a bill that augments the state's abstinence-only sex education curriculum to allow parents to sue school teachers or organizations that promote "gateway sexual activity." The...
The Libyan government on Tuesday formally challenged the right of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary;...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Bahrain to immediately release the leaders of last year's anti-government protests, including Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja . HRW states that the 14 individuals have been jailed...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to reconsider former Illinois governor George Ryan's appeal in light of Wood v. Milyard [SCOTUS blog...
The UK High Court ruled on Monday that British Internet service providers (ISPs) must block the file sharing website The Pirate Bay . All of the ISPs, except one which requested additional time to consider the ruling, have one...
Two former cadets from the US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy brought a suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that the service academies failed...
The Mexican legislature passed a sweeping climate change bill on Thursday 128-10 in the Chamber of Deputies and unanimously in the Senate . The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide...
