A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to the constitutionality of a second execution attempt filed by death row inmate...

Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty Friday to several charges in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for his role in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit Friday against Apple, eBay, Google and eight other corporations in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , claiming the infringement of four patents related...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday reported Kenya to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute over Friday's visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST...

A court in Madagascar on Saturday sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana to life in prison with hard labor for ordering the killing of opposition protesters in February 2009. Ravalomanana, who has been living in...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) on Thursday filed the state's opening brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , asking the court to lift the preliminary injunction blocking Arizona's controversial...

An Iranian court has sentenced Qorban Behzadiannejad, the campaign manager for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi during the 2009 election , to five years in prison, opposition website Kaleme reported [Kaleme...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its 77th session Friday by expressing concern with the discrimination faced by Roma migrants in numerous European countries, focusing on France's recent...

Members of the UN Security Council expressed "outrage" Thursday over a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , calling for justice for the victims....

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday appealed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the agency's television indecency rule is unconstitutionally vague in violation of...