The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information announced Wednesday that he has initiated legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving non-users' personal information. Dr. Johannes Caspar [official...
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The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled portions of the government-approved constitutional amendments aimed at limiting the power of the judiciary and bringing the traditionally-secular military and judiciary under government...
The Obama administration filed a brief Tuesday asking a federal appeals court to reinstate the offshore drilling ban ordered after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The filing in...
A complaint was filed with the Dutch prosecutor's office on Tuesday alleging that three Dutch soldiers, operating as UN peacekeepers, were complicit in the commission of war crimes and genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news...
A group of Chicago citizens on Tuesday filed suit against the city and Mayor Richard Daly claiming the the city's new gun control ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. The new ordinance bans gun shops...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced Wednesday that Germany would accept two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The announcement came after months of negotiations with the Obama administration, which...
Former Chongqing deputy police chief and high-ranking judicial official Wen Qiang was executed in China on Wednesday after an appeal of his corruption charges was rejected by the Chongqing Intermediate People's Court [official...
An Australian court on Wednesday ordered four companies and the captain of a cargo ship to stand trial over a 2009 oil spill that resulted in more than 53,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the coastal...
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday convicted New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on five criminal charges in connection with boarding a Japanese whaling vessel as part of a protest in the Antarctic....
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle (R) on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions . The bill, which would have conferred upon homosexual and...
