The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in seven different cases dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees. The court's refusal to hear the cases preserves the decisions of the US Court of...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU-FL) announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit seeking to end Florida's controversial purging of voter rolls. The ACLU-FL contends that Florida's policy of purging...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) provides the exclusive form of judicial review for employment grievances of qualifying federal employees. In Elgin v. Department of...
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to dismiss the charges against him for lack of evidence. The prosecution...
Google has reached a settlement with a group of French authors, ending a lawsuit challenging its book-scanning initiative , which displayed scanned images of select pages of books, according to a joint statement [text,...
Idaho Deputy Attorney General Michael Gilmore said on Thursday that he will ask the warden of an Idaho prison to change the prison policy that limits public access to executions. The Associated Press and 16 other newspaper...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called Friday on South African officials to oppose an investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed by members of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. Mugabe denied...
The government of Quebec on Friday announced that it is filing a lawsuit against tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating citizens with tobacco-related illnesses. The government indicated that the...
Army Col. Denise Lind on Friday denied a motion to dismiss eight of the 22 charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly transferring vast amounts of classified information to Wikileaks ....
UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk on Friday called on Israel to release two Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike for several weeks. Falk reported that Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram...
