Search Results for: 2015-05-19

The Georgia State Senate passed an amended version of a religious freedom bill, HB 757 , which some critics believe may be used to discriminate against same-sex couples. The bill gives religious leaders the right to...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action suit against Kansas on Thursday on behalf of six individuals challenging Kansas' voter registration law. Since 2011, Kansas has been one of only four states that...

JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU), John L. Hick of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Dan Hanfling of the UPMC Center for Health Security and...

North Carolina voters in two racially formulated voting districts filed a response in the US Supreme Court Tuesday rejecting the merits of the state's request to a stay a district court order to redistrict prior to...

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert began his 19-month prison sentence on Monday following his attempts to appeal his conviction for bribery. Olmert was convicted in 2014 for accepting several bribes for housing projects in...

The California District Court for the Northern District on Monday granted Apple's motion for a permanent injunction against Samsung for infringing upon three software patents . The patents involve data...

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been released after receiving a suspended sentence on Tuesday. Zhiqiang was indicted in May on charges of fanning ethnic hatred and provoking trouble for comments that he posted online. He...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslav (ICTY) publicly announced on Tuesday confidential charges and arrest warrants for contempt of court against three people involved in the Vojislav Šešelj trial ....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called Saturday for a "swift, full and transparent investigation" into airstrikes that hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, over...

Tianjin Mayor Huang Xingguo said Wednesday that the owners of the hazmat facility that exploded in the city last week used their political connections get the facility built despite violating a great deal of safety rules. One...