A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday blocked a state election law adopted in 2006 that discards provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Pursuant to the law, the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called Monday for an immediate and impartial investigation into the killing of hundreds of civilians in Daraya, Syria. According to spokesperson Martin Nesirky, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Monday that a question on voter identification can be put to referendum in November, disregarding protests from the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN) . The ACLU-MN challenged...

Oral arguments began Monday in South Carolina v. US , as South Carolina defended its new voter identification law from a Department of Justice (DOJ) ruling that blocked its implementation. The law, which would require...

The Parliament of Romania on Monday recognized the return to office of suspended President Traian Basescu after accepting a recent Constitutional Court decision that invalidated a national referendum to remove the...

The lawyer for three members of the Russian feminist activist group Pussy Riot on Monday appealed the two-year sentences imposed on the women last week. Defense lawyer Nikolai Polozov conceded that the decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of...

Opponents of Proposition 8 , California's statewide ban on same-sex marriage urged the US Supreme Court on Friday not to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari submitted ...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday tentatively approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Seattle relating to a DOJ investigation...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday granted Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf three additional weeks to urge Switzerland to reopen an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari . Ashraf appeared in court on...

A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced two local UN staff members to imprisonment for their alleged involvement in sectarian violence that gripped the western Rakhine state this past spring. One of the staff members worked for ...