Judge Joe Heaton of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Friday granted Hobby Lobby a temporary exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST...

Russian political activist and lawyer Alexei Navalny was freed from jail on Friday, less than 24 hours after he was sentenced to five years for embezzling 16 million rubles (USD $500,000). Navalny and his co-defendant,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday rejected Libya's request to suspend the order to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Muammar Gaddafi. It also ruled that...

Texas Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill number 2 on Thursday, enacting three new restrictions on the practice of abortion. These changes require physicians performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30...

More than 1,000 victims of former Chad dictator Hissene Habre filed for civil party status on Thursday, asking the Extraordinary African Chambers of Senegal to offcially recognize them as parties with an interest in the...

Bangladeshi prosecutors announced Thursday that they are charging the assistant secretary-general of the largest Islamist political party with six war crimes in the 1971 war of liberation. ATM Azharul Islam was required to report to the International Crimes Tribunal...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that US President Barack Obama's recess appointments of three National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) members was unconstitutional. The court concluded that...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday entered into an agreement with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to reform the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) . Speaking in San Juan, Attorney...

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced political activist and lawyer Alexei Navalny to five years in prison for embezzling USD $500,000 from a state-owned timber company. Navalny, a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin [official website, in...

Judge Sang Hyun Song , the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , on Tuesday urged the international community to commit to bringing perpetrators of war crimes and genocide to justice. Song's statement marked...