A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a request by the Obama administration to immediately appeal an earlier ruling that allowed a challenge to a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to go forward. Judge Rosemary Collyer found that the House of Representatives does have legal [...]

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for four months in 2003. El-Masri was on vacation in Macedonia when he was mistaken for Khalid Al-Masri, a suspect in [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday issued a temporary order allowing Texas officials to continue denying birth certificates to children of immigrants. Earlier this year a group of undocumented immigrants sued the state because the state refused to issue birth certificates to immigrants who provided forms [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two sets of cases, involving patent infringement damages and energy preemption, respectively. The first set, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer and Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc. involves the application of a rigid two-part test to assess damages in a patent infringement case under 35 USC [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono expressed “grave concern” Friday over the intensification of violence across Occupied Palestinian Territory. In his statement he urged Israel to “exercise restraint and to recognise that all, including Palestinians, have equal right to respect for their human rights and their dignity.” Palestinian deaths have been on the rise, as have [...]

Vanuatu authorities arrested 11 lawmakers on Saturday who had last week pardoned themselves of their corruption convictions while the president was away from the country. The arrests came as President Baldwin Lonsdale revoked the pardons of the 14 lawmakers who have been convicted of bribery. They were arrested on Friday for suspicion of conspiracy to [...]

Greek lawmakers approved a bill early Saturday morning containing new austerity measures and economic overhauls under its new bailout program. All but one of the 155 members of the leftist Syriza , which now runs the government under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras , and the Independent Anel Greeks voted in favor of the bill, with [...]

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt agreed Friday to suspend all executions until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt they he will not seek to fulfill any death sentences until the investigation on how the state received the wrong drugs is [...]

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has accused the Taliban of Human rights abuses during the battle in Kunduz earlier this month. According to AIHRC at least 50 civilians were killed and more than 300 injured. They further indicated that the number is most likely much higher, as they complied the tally based on [...]

UN human rights experts on Friday condemned Iran’s execution of a juvenile offender convicted of murdering her husband whom she was forced to marry at the age of 16. Fatemeh Salbehi was executed on Tuesday despite several reports of flaws in her trial and appeals process. The UN rights experts pointed to her age at [...]