A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday found the US Department of Interior (DOI) in contempt and ordered the department to pay attorney's fees for Hornbeck...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments Wednesday on a new challenge to the Voting Rights Act of Act of 1965 (VRA) . Arguing before Judge John Bates, officials representing...
The UK government's independent reviewer of terror laws on Thursday published a report saying that rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made it difficult to remove foreign terror suspects from Britain. Control...
Kenya's High Court of Nairobi ruled Thursday that recent judicial nominations by President Mwai Kibaki are unconstitutional, halting parliament's approval proceedings. Agreeing with an earlier pronouncement by Prime Minister Raila...
The Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles on Wednesday approved a $6.5 million settlement between the state of California and two former Countrywide Financial Corporation executives accused of predatory lending. The lawsuit alleged...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling barring the Ten Commandments from being displayed in an Ohio courthouse. The display, called "Philosophies of...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II announced Thursday that he will file a petition for certiorari before judgment with the US Supreme Court , asking the court to hear an...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday ordered the administrator for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) to refrain from characterizing himself as independent from...
Russia's Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights will look into the verdicts handed down against former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev . During a recent...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that the Detroit Immigration Court has ordered the removal of a Michigan man accused of killing Jews while serving as a member of the Nazi-sponsored...