A judge for Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court on Monday stayed the execution of death row inmate Warren Lee Hill , which was scheduled for 7:00 PM that night. Hill’s attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a statement Monday afternoon announcing that the court had decided to delay the execution in order to hold a briefing on [...]
Prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) sentenced 90-year-old former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) on Monday to 90 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Ghulam Azam was found guilty of five charges of planning, conspiracy, incitement, complicity and murder during the war. [...]
Egypt authorities on Saturday announced a criminal investigation of ousted president Mohamed Morsi , who was deposed on July 3rd by the Egyptian military. Prosecutors have reported that they are investigating complaints which include charges of spying, ruining the economy and inciting violence. The complaints, which were formally filed by an unidentified citizen, will allow [...]
Microsoft Corp filed a lawsuit on Thursday against US Customs officials accusing them of refusing to follow an import ban issued in May 2012 against Google, Inc. by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) . The trade agency had issued the ban after deciding that Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility devices infringed a Microsoft patent for [...]
The Texas Senate passed an abortion bill which will ban abortions after twenty weeks, require abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers, dictate the usage of the drug RU486 and require abortion doctors at clinics to have admitting privileges at hospital within a 30 mile radius. Opponents of the bill, including Planned Parenthood of Texas [...]
Attorneys representing Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Protect Marriage on Friday filed a petition asking the Supreme Court of California to halt same-sex marriages. In the petition, the attorneys argued that U.S. Supreme Court’s Hollingsworth v. Perry did not rule directly on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 , California’s same-sex marriage ban. ADF further claimed [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday unanimously reversed the acquittal of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for a genocide charge in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) during the Bosnian War . The decision reversed Karadzic’s acquittal last year on one of the charges he faces, but [...]
A Moscow court on Thursday convicted deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and former client, William Browder, of tax evasion. Magnitsky, who died in prison in 2009 under suspicious circumstances, was a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital Fund and was arrested in 2008 by Russian Interior Ministry officials on suspicion of tax evasion after he accused the [...]
The Irish Parliament voted 127-31 Friday in favor of a bill that would allow a woman to undergo an abortion if her life is at risk. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill was passed after contentious debate , particularly concerning a provision that allows a woman to undergo an abortion if she is at [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld Congress’ authority to require larger employers to provide adequate health insurance for their employees or pay a fine. In a challenge by Liberty University, the Fourth Circuit found that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted. The [...]
