The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday postponed the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta until February, vacating the previously established November commencement date. The chamber expressed its regret that repeated trial adjournments have been necessary, urging both the defense and prosecution to accelerate their preparation so that further postponements could be avoided. This [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday ruled Thursday Texas can enforce a law that prohibits doctors from performing abortions if the doctor does not have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The law’s constitutionality was challenged by Planned Parenthood . The court held that the state has a substantial interest [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday blocked changes to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk procedures. The ruling specifically denounced the decision of district court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who initially ordered the changes, stating that the judge, “ran afoul of the Code of Conduct of United States Judges.” [...]
A Colorado same-sex couple filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Adams County District Court after they were denied a marriage license from the Adams County Clerk’s office in Colorado. The couple, Rebecca Brinkman and Margaret Burd, argues that Colorado’s civil union statute violates the Fourteenth Amendment by denying same-gender couples the same rights as hetero-couples. [...]
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday struck down a law banning sexually explicit Internet communications between an adult and minor. The case arose when John Christopher Lo was charged with the third degree felony of communicating in a sexually explicit manner with a person whom he believed to be a minor with an [...]
Poland formally requested that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) hold an upcoming December 3 hearing regarding Poland’s complicity in US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret detention facilities in private. The ECHR is scheduled for a public hearing on whether Poland hosted a secret jail operated by the CIA in arguments in the cases [...]
Two former leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, “Brother Number Two,” Nuon Chea, and former president Khieu Samphan, on trial before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia requested Thursday that they be acquitted of all charges, as closing arguments in their trial began. Both are charged with mass killings which occurred during the [...]
Four service women and the Service Women Action Network (SWAN) filed an amended complaint on Thursday in their lawsuit against the US Army and the Department of Defense in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . The amended complaint asks the court to declare policies and practices of excluding women from [...]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin challenging the constitutionality of revisions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) . In July the US Department of Treasury (DOT) announced that it would not implement the employer [...]
The Supreme Court of Virginia on Thursday overturned a jury award against Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for two student deaths related resulting from the university shooting on April 16, 2007 . Addressing the separate lawsuits brought by the estates of Erin Nicole Peterson and Julia Kathleen Pryde, two of the victims [...]
