The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted an en banc rehearing to Wal-Mart, Inc. Friday in a long-running gender discrimination suit against the retailer. According to the order, a majority...
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An Obama administration official said Friday that a review of detainees, the first step in closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay , has begun . US President Barack Obama issued the executive...
A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled this week that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA) , which makes it a federal...
A judge for the Erie County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio issued a permanent injunction Thursday against a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bylaw that restricted the eligibility of student baseball players who were...
The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced Friday that no charges will be filed against London Metropolitan Police Service ("Met") officers involved in the shooting death of Brazilian immigrant Jean Charles de...
The European Commission (EC) on Thursday reported that Romania has not made sufficient progress in its anti-corruption campaign since its accession to the European Union (EU) two years ago. The EC's report commended...
The Kenyan Parliament rejected Thursday two bills that would have established a special national tribunal to deal with cases stemming from the December 2007 post-election violence . The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2009...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday called on the new national government of Zimbabwe to reinstate the rule of law and to release all political prisoners who remain in...
The backlog of cases pending in the Delhi High Court would take more than 460 years to clear, according to the court's annual report . Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah released the report at a...
The National Assembly of South Africa voted 232-60 Thursday in support of the decision of President Kgalema Motlanthe to fire the country's chief prosecutor Vusi Pikoli . The vote endorsed [Times...
