Officials from South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, said Thursday that the two countries will work on a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War to replace a cease-fire agreement reached...
READ MORE ▸
New Turkish President Abdullah Gul Wednesday proposed amending a law that makes it a crime to insult Turkish national identity. Gul said at a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg that the law...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Wednesday that reported Pakistani promises to drop pending corruption charges against her amount to "disinformation" and indicated that talks with President Pervez Musharraf ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a certiorari petition Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge of the government's domestic surveillance program that was rejected [opinion,...
The Constitutional Court of Indonesia Wednesday upheld marriage laws limiting polygamy , despite teachings in the predominantly Islamic country's largest religion allowing men to take up to four wives. Under Indonesian law [Emory Law...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in New York Board of Elections v. Torres , 06-766, to consider whether the procedure by which the state...
Michael V. Strong, as Assessor, etc., v. State Board of Equalization, Tom Kidwell, as Assessor, etc., Equality California, et al., Court of Appeal for the State of California Third Appellate Division, October 2, 2007 [ruling that domestic partners, like married...
A California appeals court ruled Tuesday that domestic partners, like married couples, can inherit real estate from one another without an increase in property taxes. The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento found that...
US Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) listed what he described as topics of "concern" to be addressed in the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for former federal judge and US Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey [WH...
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled in favor of a class of Pennsylvania Wal-mart workers on Wednesday, awarding the employees an additional $62.3 million under a state law which demands that pay not be withheld for...
