A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday that California state employees can sue for discrimination over the exclusion of their same-sex spouses from long-term health care programs. The Obama...

Lawyers for Google on Wednesday filed an appeal in Spanish court hoping to overturn orders from Spanish authorities to remove websites that allegedly violate privacy rights. Spain's Data Protection Agency filed 90...

Human rights groups are calling for Lithuania to reopen its investigation into whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a secret prison in the country. Statements from Amnesty International (AI) and Reprieve say that...

The Somali Parliament on Tuesday rejected legislation designed to combat piracy . The bill, introduced last week by government officials, seeks to criminalize piracy and improve internal mechanisms for trying alleged offenders. Lawmakers expressed reservations...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in Harrington v. Richter that the section of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) [28 USC § 2254...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday announced a one-month postponement in the seating of the country's new parliament, following a request by a high court judicial tribunal asking for more time to look into...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled Tuesday to uphold the affirmative action policy of considering race in student admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT)...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned a lower court's ruling in NASA v. Nelson and upheld the background checks that NASA uses for...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in FCC v. AT&T on whether exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday appealed a ruling that found the minimum coverage provision of the recently enacted health care reform law unconstitutional. The government filed a notice...