The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Philip Morris v. Jackson , declining to determine whether a state court erred in certifying a class of smokers...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Monday blocked two sections of the state's controversial immigration bill that was signed into law last month [JURIST...

Uruguay President Jose Mujica is removing 80 administrative acts blocking investigations into crimes committed by the military junta that ruled between 1973-85, Secretary of the Presidency Alberto Breccia announced [press release, in...

A jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Monday convicted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts including attempting to sell the US...

The US Supreme Court , ruled Monday in a per curiam opinion in US v. Juvenile Male that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had no authority to rule that the requirements of...

Prominent Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was released from prison on Sunday after serving three years for a subversion conviction. Hu was formally charged in February 2008 and subsequently sentenced to more than...

The US Supreme Court in a plurality opinion Monday reversed the New Jersey Supreme Court's grant of personal jurisdiction over a UK company in a products liability suit. Robert Nicastro alleged that...

Fifteen associates of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo were charged on Sunday with crimes allegedly committed as a result of the country's post-election violence that has been ongoing since last November....

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett that an Arizona campaign finance regulation that provided publicly financed candidates with additional government subsidies, which...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Goodyear v. Brown that foreign subsidiaries of the American corporation Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company are...