Mass arrests and incommunicado detentions persist at Camp Honor, a prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad that the Iraqi government promised to close last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) , reported Tuesday. According to HRW, the...
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A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday denied petitions by book publishers and Apple to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that...
UN experts and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday urged an end to the threats and killings of human rights advocates and journalists in Mexico. The UN and IACHR called on the...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill allowing pharmacists to refuse to dispense drugs that they "reasonably believe" might result in the termination of a pregnancy, his office announced Monday. Critics...
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Monday signed an executive order requiring government agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state. Rhode Island law currently allows civil unions for same-sex couples, but...
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari on Monday in Igartua v. United States, a case challenging Puerto Ricans' inability to vote in US presidential elections. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially on Monday reversed the district court's refusal to grant a temporary injunction for Apple against Samsung for...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced Monday that his office will seek arrest warrants for two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for war crimes and crimes against...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Hall v. United States that family farmers filing bankruptcy under Chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code cannot discharge a capital gains tax incurred by...
A judge for the District Court of Oklahoma County on Friday ruled that an Oklahoma law restricting how doctors may use abortion-inducing drugs to treat patients was a violation of the Oklahoma Constitution ....
