A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday tentatively ruled that Toyota could appeal the ruling in a class action lawsuit filed over alleged...
Serbian authorities on Wednesday arrested Goran Hadzic , the last fugitive of the original 161 sought for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Serbian President Boris Tadic...
US President Barack Obama supports repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) , Press Secretary Jay Carney announced at a White House press briefing Tuesday. Carney also said that Obama supports the Respect for...
A federal judge on Friday ordered Florida's Dixie County Courthouse to remove the Ten Commandments monument displayed on the front steps of the courthouse. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) filed the...
The Philippine government has failed to investigate and prosecute extrajudicial killings tied to the country's military, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Tuesday. In a report entitled "No Justice Just Adds to the Pain:...
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) on Monday filed a complaint challenging a North Dakota law that effectively bans non-surgical abortions in the state. The law restricts the use of...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday ruled that Google could appeal a decision permitting a wiretapping lawsuit against the company to proceed. Judge James...
Three Pakistani men filed a complaint on Monday seeking to arrest former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) legal counsel for authorizing unmanned predator drone strikes . The complaint alleges that former General Counsel to...
UN Officials and the UN Security Council on Monday called for an end to fighting in the Southern Kordofan area of Sudan . Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for UN Office of the High Commissioner...
A Ukraine court on Monday dismissed Serhiy Vlasenko, a lawyer representing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , from judicial proceedings. Vlasenko had been defending Tymoshenko in a criminal case related to United Energy Systems of...