The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday reinstated a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the no-fly list maintained by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) . The appeals court, without deciding on the merits of the case, decided the case could go forward and remanded it to [...]

The UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Kenya to investigate all cases related to the 2007 post-election violence in order to avoid impunity. The OHCHR expressed concern that the proceedings against the perpetrators responsible for the violence are making slow progress and urged the government to increase efforts to address the cases. In [...]

Madoff trustee Irving Picard has asked a bankruptcy court to approve the release of between $2.5 and $3.5 billion in recovered assets so that it can be distributed to victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Picard has recovered over $9 billion in assets on behalf of Madoff victims but was previously delayed in his [...]

The North Gauteng High Court at Pretoria in South Africa on Thursday convicted of high treason the leader of an extremist group responsible for nine bombings in Johannesburg’s Soweto township in 2002. Mike du Toit, leader of the white supremacist group Boeremag , has been on trial for nine years and is the first person [...]

The UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) on Thursday made available additional funds for the government of Kuwait in an amount of around $1.3 billion for losses suffered during 1990-1991 Iraqi invasion . The funds will be available to six successful claimants, including four claims by corporations and public sector enterprises and two claims by governments and [...]

A man charged with kidnapping, assault and violating a hate crime law in an attack on a gay man filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on Wednesday challenging the validity of the hate crime law under which he is being prosecuted. Anthony Ray Jenkins, 20, is charged [...]

The Thomas More Law Center on Wednesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan asking the court to block a controversial employer insurance mandate, issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , that is scheduled to go into effect on August 1. The mandate [...]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Thursday that an individual who is party to a Vermont civil union must first dissolve that civil union before entering into a marriage with a different person in Massachusetts. The case concerns Richard Elia, who in 2005 discovered in the middle of his pending divorce that his spouse [...]

A German court on Thursday dismissed the patent infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility . Microsoft alleged that Motorola has unlawfully used its patent EP1304891 which monitors different functions on a smartphone and provides such information to other applications utilizing them. Another case that was brought by Microsoft against Motorola [...]

Rwandan leaders who aided armed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supplied them with weapons, armor and recruits, including children may have committed war crimes, the leader of the US Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ) told reporters on Wednesday. The comments by GCJ leader Stephen Rapp follow a UN report [...]