The District Court of the Hague on Wednesday dismissed claims alleging the Dutch government negligently failed to protect civilians during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The relatives of several Bosnian Muslims killed at Srebrenica argued...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on Wednesday told Congress that a 670-mile fence along the US-Mexican border is unlikely to be completed as planned by year's end because of cost...

A report released Thursday by B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories alleges that Israeli security policies have resulted in Palestinians being prevented from accessing land adjacent to...

A group of American citizens from Texas' Rio Grande Valley filed suit against the US Department of State (DOS) Tuesday, alleging they had been denied passports because they are of Mexican descent...

US government secrecy continued to increase in 2007, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2008 released Tuesday by OpenTheGovernment.org . The report chastized the Bush administration for its refusal "to be held accountable...

A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Monday granted summary judgment for the state of Georgia in a suit alleging that the state's electronic voting system is unconstitutional and illegally vulnerable to fraud. The challenge, filed in...

Carl Eric Olsen v. Michael Mukasey, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, September 8, 2008 [rejecting claims that federal and state drug laws violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a priest in a religious organization...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday calling on Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen to join in a global moratorium on the death penalty for juveniles. The report...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment and dismissal to Michigan's Region VII Area Agency on Aging (Region VII) , instead ruling...

United States of America v. James Ford Seale, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, September 9, 2008 [vacating the conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for his involvement in the 1964 deaths of two...