The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of Maurice Greenberg's Starr International Co. The appeal argued that the federal government illegally bailed out AIG during the financial crisis of 2008 at...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday released a report alleging that former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa abused the criminal justice system to target indigenous leaders and environmentalists who protested mining and oil exploration in the Amazon....

Government watchdog group Common Cause filed a pair of legal complaints on Monday accusing Cambridge Analytica LTD and its affiliates of violating federal election laws that prohibit foreigners from participating in the decision-making process of US...

Amnesty International (AI) said Monday that the Australian government must discard two new proposed bills that they claim have the ability to infringe on civil work and whistleblower rights and limit scrutiny of the government. AI...

US President Donald Trump on Friday directed JSecretary of Defense ames Mattis to ban transgender troops from serving in the military if they require surgery or significant medical treatment. The memorandum revokes the president's August order...

Spanish Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena charged 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion on Friday. The leaders include Jordi Sànchez, the former president of the Catalan National Assembly, as well as other former...

Former Bosnian military leader Ratko Mladić on Thursday appealed his conviction to the UN Mechanism for International Tribunals . Mladić was tried and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, then sentenced...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. UN human rights experts expressed concern [press...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. The issue on appeal was whether the sale of a license to use software counts as a...