A US district court judge ruled Wednesday that US Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) cannot transfer his corruption trial to Alaska from Washington, DC. Rejecting Stevens' argument that he needed to be in Alaska to...

The Chicago Urban League (CUL) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit insisting that Illinois' current school funding scheme be declared unconstitutional in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 . CUL challenges the state's...

Officials for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry have said that they plan to prosecute those suspected of torturing inmates of the country's prison system, according to a Wednesday report . The country signed on to the UN's Convention Against...

Indonesian Attorney General Hendarman Supandji announced Wednesday that the men convicted of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will not be executed until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which the death penalty...

Iran has executed a man for a stabbing he committed while still a minor, according Wednesday reports from local media. The execution is said to violate the terms of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child ,...

The City of New York agreed to pay approximately $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by protesters who had claimed they had been illegally arrested, according to Tuesday statements made by the city's Law...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Tuesday that existing US Food and Drug Association (FDA) regulations do not preempt a New Jersey woman's state claim that she was...

Deborah Fellner v. Tri-Union Seafoods, L.L.C. d/b/a Chicken of the Sea, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 19, 2008 [ruling that existing US Food and Drug Association (FDA) regulations do not preempt a state claim for mercury...

Jury selection began Tuesday in the the trial of a former US Marine who faces voluntary manslaughter charges  for alleged involvement in the deaths of four Iraqi civilians in 2004. Sergeant Jose Nazario cannot face trial by court-martial...

L.M., v. Capistrano United School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 19, 2008 [upholding a California public school's policy that parents may only observe their disabled children in the classroom for twenty minutes in order to...