A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Friday dismissed a counterclaim filed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) and state Attorney General Tom Horne ...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit unanimously ruled to restore the Roadless Rule , ending a 2008 national injunction . The Roadless Rule blocks road-building and commercial timber harvesting on expanses...
On Friday, Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland announced that he will be petitioning the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense to re-examine the war crime convictions of Australian Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant [advocacy...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns , on Thursday urged respect for international standards concerning the use of lethal force during arrests and warned that the growing use of...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced plans to develop standards for the disposal of wastewater from the process of hydraulic fracturing . Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process in which water,...
The Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) on Thursday filed a complaint in the Surrey Provincial Court on behalf of four men against former US president George W. Bush on torture charges...
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court challenging Wisconsin's new voter identification law as a violation of the Wisconsin Constitution . Plaintiffs seek declaratory and...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday called for a full investigation into the killing of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by group of 10 congressmen alleging that US President Barack Obama violated Article I Section...
A judge for the Queen's Court Bench of Alberta has granted legal rights to a non-biological father of a childthe ex-partner of the biological fatherover the biological father in a child custody case. While the judge stated...
