The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on Thursday that a 2002 reapportionment of voting boundaries in the city of Aurora, Illinois did not violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA)...

Ecuador's special assembly charged with rewriting the nation's constitution provisionally approved a new constitution on Thursday. The draft includes unprecedented measures giving the president the power to remove Congress in the first three years...

Senegal has formally adopted a constitutional amendment giving the nation's courts jurisdiction over the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre , according to a Thursday statement by Human Rights Watch...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against financial firm UBS on Thursday for allegedly misrepresenting so-called "auction rate securities" as low-risk despite the actual volatility of such investments. In the...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Thursday that he has appointed South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . Pillay, a former judge of...

Officials at the US Chamber of Commerce's affiliate, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) , said in a report released Thursday that the system of heavy securities class action litigation in the US is...

The US Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday held hearings on a bill designed to give Native American courts and law enforcement broader authority to combat violent and sex-related crimes. Senator Byron Dorgan...

An immigration policy reform group Wednesday called on the Northern California US Attorney's Office to take over a murder investigation involving an illegal immigrant who previously avoided deportation under a 2007 San Francisco sanctuary ordinance [City of...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday convicted a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges and fined him 7,000 euros for revealing the identity of a witness in...

A lawyer for Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic on Thursday threatened to sue several unknown persons whom he alleges kidnapped Karadzic last week. Serbian officials have said that Karadzic was arrested...