Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday after Afifi discovered a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage...
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International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced Thursday that he will investigate allegations of crimes against humanity by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his inner circle. According to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday condemned the assassination of Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti and expressed her opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law . Bhatti,...
The UK government on Tuesday commenced legal measures to overturn a controversial European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that declared the UK's ban on prisoner voting rights unlawful. The government requested that...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases: one regarding the extent of immunity for a federal official and another regarding the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause. In Ashcroft v....
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in Pepper v. United States that judges may consider a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation as a permissible factor supporting a...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and 32 other organizations on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief in the US Supreme Court , supporting a class action discrimination lawsuit filed...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday that it will launch an investigation into the recent violence in Libya. According to a statement , ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will make a formal announcement...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in Snyder v. Phelps that First Amendment protections extend to protesters at military funerals. Reverend Fred Phelps and members of the...
The Malaysian Federal Court refused to dismiss a lawsuit Tuesday brought on behalf of indigenous peoples of Borneo who claim the Sarawat state government unconstitutionally took their land and sold it to businesses....
