A judge for Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that the state's voter identification law is unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction against the law's enforcement. Judge David Flanagan is the second Dane County...
A coalition of civil rights groups on Tuesday asked a federal judge to block a portion of Arizona's controversial immigration law that requires police to check the immigration status of people...
A Kuwaiti lawyer announced Tuesday that he has filed a lawsuit against Kuwait's prime minister and other government officials in order to pressure authorities to facilitate the release of two Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo Bay ....
UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Tuesday urged the US not to execute two individuals with "psychosocial disabilities" who are set to be put to death in Georgia and Texas. Warren Hill...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday dismissed petitions by the American Petroleum Institute that challenged recently enacted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations restricting the peak amount...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nebraska on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by seven state attorneys general challenging new health care mandates in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) [text;...
The Canadian Federal Court ruled Tuesday that the Canadian government's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol was legal. Canadian Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced...
Russian investigators on Monday announced that they have formally charged ex-police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov with the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . Pavlyuchenkov, who was a lieutenant colonel at the time of...
The European Commission (EC) stated on Wednesday that urgent action is necessary to ensure that Romania respects the rule of law and judicial independence. The EC stated that Romania has made progress in the past...
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos on Monday urged all parties involved in the Syrian conflict to take measures to avoid killing civilians. She stressed that failure to take precautions to distinguish...