Three former service members discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) filed a complaint against the Department of Defense (DOD) Monday, seeking reinstatement and the declaration that their...

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a joint expert opinion Tuesday urging a Spanish court to open an investigation into six former Bush administration...

An Alaskan Superior Court judge on Monday refused to block a law requiring parental notification for women under the age of 18 to have an abortion , allowing the law to take effect Tuesday. The law was...

A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expert on Monday urged Myanmar's military government to release 2,202 political prisoners . Tomas Ojea Quintana , a UN Special Rapporteur, called for the release of the...

The Council of the EU adopted a decision Monday to institute sanctions against the Ivory Coast. There has been unrest in the country since elections were held at the beginning of this...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Monday that the minimum coverage provision of the recently enacted health care reform law is...

Irving Picard, the trustee charged with recovering money for the victims of the Bernard Madoff scandal, has filed close to 60 lawsuits in the past three weeks attempting to recover more than $40 billion from numerous...

The US Supreme Court on Monday divided 4-4 in Costco Wholesale Corp v. Omega, SA on the issue of copyright protections for imported goods. The case presented...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday filed a complaint in a Malaysian court over a WikiLeaks cable published by Australian newspapers stating he had engaged in sodomy. The leaked US diplomatic cable...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen against Apple, eBay, Google and eight...