State and national housing advocates filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday arguing that Louisiana's Hurricane Katrina recovery program, Road Home Louisiana , discriminates against African-American homeowners. The federally-funded program awards grants to homeowners...
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A panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) seeking to have bribery charges against him dropped....
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian continued a hunger strike in the Tucheng jail in suburban Taipei Thursday after being incarcerated Wednesday, according to local media reports. While there are no official charges against Chen, the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs more vocal support from its member countries in a memorandum sent to member governments in advance of...
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and the Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos de España (APDHE) filed suit Thursday in Spain's National Court against Alfredo...
Germany's lower house of parliament voted Wednesday to approve a new law which would expand the power of Germany's federal police agency, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) , to undertake online and telephone...
Authors of a new report on detainees released from US detention in Guantanamo Bay are urging US president-elect Barack Obama to form an independent, nonpartisan commission...
The European Court of First Instance on Wednesday denied an appeal by the Danish company Lego to restore its EU trademark for its interlocking toy bricks. The decision upheld an...
A court in Brandenburg, Kentucky began civil trial proceedings Wednesday against the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America over injuries sustained to then-16-year old Jordan Gruver, a US citizen of Panamanian descent, during a racially motivated beating allegedly perpetrated by...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday announced that it had filed an Alabama Open Records Act request to obtain documents related to the Hankins Middle School policy of...
