The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a challenge Monday to the newly signed Texas law requiring a sonogram be done before a woman can have an abortion. The CRR filed the lawsuit in the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Monday appealed the dismissal of a case over two Guantanamo Bay detainees,Yasser Al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia and Salah Al-Salami of Yemen, who committed suicide while in detention...
The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan that a Nevada ethics law that requiring government officials to recuse themselves from votes where they...
The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation that in a trust relationship between the government and a Native American tribe the government does...
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called Monday on the international community to help improve workers' rights , during an address to the International Labor Organization (ILO) at its annual conference. She said...
The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled in DePierre v. United States that the harsher sentences under a federal anti-drug statute for "cocaine base" applied to more than just "crack...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Thursday condemned reported violence by Syria against its own people, calling on it to allow UN investigators into the country . Pillay said that reports show the number...
A French Muslim couple living in the UK filed a challenge Thursday in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over a French ban on full face coverings, while a Spanish court upheld a...
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unaimously Tuesday that a blogger does not have the same privilege to protect her sources as other journalists in traditional media. The court found that a New Jersey "shield law" [NJSA...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of the new health care reform law and its individual mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance....
