California Attorney General Jerry Brown  said  Wednesday that portions of Proposition 209 , an amendment to the California Constitution  banning the use of affirmative action for state hiring, contracting, or university admission, may violate the US Constitution. Brown made...

The Connecticut General Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill granting same-sex couples the right to marry. The legislation codified the October ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Wednesday that Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad , detained since he was a teenager,...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Iran by hostages from the 1979 hostage situation in Tehran. The class-action lawsuit, brought by from former hostages Charles...

The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Wednesday validated the recount results of the April 5 election in which the Communist Party won 60 of the 101 parliamentary seats. The court issued two acts , which cannot...

The spokesman for China's Supreme People's Court , Sun Jungong, announced Wednesday that he had started writing his own blog in order to directly communicate with the public. Sun said...

A Sudanese court on Wednesday sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death by hanging for their involvement in a 2008 attack on Khartoum...

 The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Ricci v. DeStefano , where the Court will consider whether a government employer may refuse to...

A top Norwegian prosecutor said Wednesday that she will look into a compliant filed by Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli government figures of war crimes during the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip . The chief prosecutor at Norway's...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 7-2 in Nken v. Holder , retitled from Nken v. Mukasey, that an alien's stay of deportation request pending consideration of...