The Human Rights Ombudsman in Russia, Vladimir Lukin , filed an appeal in a Moscow court on Tuesday following the ruling against Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former CEO of Yukos, and his business...
Judge Stephen Friot of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Monday denied a request from Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to prevent Oklahoma from terminating its contract with them. Planned...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday that police do not need a warrant to search a suspect's cell phone once the suspect been lawfully arrested. The defendant was arrested after police observed him participating in...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday regarding a longtime border dispute between Chile and Peru . Peru first filed its application with the ICJ in 2008 alleging...
US Senator Dianne Feinstein released a report by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday which asserts that US prisons could safely absorb the 166 detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay military prison...
The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor sent a letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday requesting materials and evidence from the case files of...
Judge Portley of the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the state legislature can transfer funds from the Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA) to the state's general fund. The ICA was...
A spokesperson for the Australian Minister for Justice said Saturday that he has approved the extradition of Serbian war crimes suspect, Dragan Vasiljkovic , to Croatia. Vasiljkovic is accused of torturing and killing captured members...
Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore pledged Thursday to bring "legal clarity" to Ireland's abortion laws following the death of Savita Halappanavar , a 31-year-old dentist who was denied a potentially life saving abortion....
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Section 3 defines "marriage" under federal law as a "legal union between...
