The Thomas More Law Center on Wednesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan asking the court to block a controversial employer insurance mandate,...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Thursday that an individual who is party to a Vermont civil union must first dissolve that civil union before entering into a marriage with a different person in...
A German court on Thursday dismissed the patent infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility . Microsoft alleged that Motorola has unlawfully used its patent EP1304891 which monitors...
Rwandan leaders who aided armed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supplied them with weapons, armor and recruits, including children may have committed war crimes, the leader of the US...
The US government and Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday criticized Cuba for the arrest and detention of more than 40 activists who were attending the funeral of prominent dissident Oswaldo Jose Paya...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) used excessive force and violated the rights of protesters who participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City, a report issued by a coalition of legal...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a brief with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . DOMA denies federal recognition of...
A Kenyan court on Wednesday lifted the ban on a group that campaigns for the independence of a coastal strip surrounding the city of Mombasa. The three judges for the country's High Court held that...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to rehear a case challenging a California law requiring police to conduct buccal mouth swabs to extract DNA samples from any...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused government forces and rebels in Syria of summarily capturing and killing opposition forces in violation of international humanitarian law. The AI report came after 19 bodies...