The British government indicated Monday that it will issue a new set of regulations regarding the use of information obtained via torture. The announcement came as part of the government's defense against a lawsuit filed by the human rights...

Google announced Monday that it will stop redirecting Internet users in mainland China to its unfiltered search engine in Honk Kong in an effort to renew the company's Internet Content Provider license....

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called on the government of East Timor to close legal loopholes in that allow for national amnesties and pardons for war crimes. In a report...

Women's rights group Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit on Monday opposing a new Nebraska law that will require doctors to perform psychological screenings of patients seeking...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings Monday for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan , with Democratic and Republican senators offering contrasting interpretations of Kagan's judicial philosophy and lack of experience...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in six cases. In Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria , the court will determine whether an Arizona statute imposing sanctions...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in McDonald v. Chicago that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment right...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Bilski v. Kappos that business method patents may qualify as patentable subject matter but that a specific method...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez that the "all comers" policy at the University of California-Hastings School of Law...