The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Mutual Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Bartlett that generic drug design defect claims that turn on the adequacy of a drug's warnings are...
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The US Supreme Court ruled 7-1 Monday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin that the appeals court did not apply the correct standard in upholding a ruling for the...
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the president's recess appointment power . In NLRB v. Noel Canning , the court will decide: (1) whether the president's recess-appointment...
The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution to strengthen efforts to end impunity for sexual violence affecting not only large numbers of women and girls, but also men and boys....
Judge Simeon Lake of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Friday reduced the prison sentence of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling from more than 24 years...
A new anti-piracy bill allowing for websites to be blocked by Internet service providers (ISPs) upon copyright infringement claims passed through its final two readings in Russia's State Duma on Friday. Under the terms of...
UN Independent Expert on human rights in Sudan , Mashood Adebayo Baderin, said Friday after his third visit to Sudan that the human rights situation in the country has undergone positive improvements, but expressed his concern...
Moroccan courts are relying too heavily on coerced confessions and delaying trial proceedings, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday, calling for reform of the country's judicial system. The 131-page report, entitled "Just Sign Here: Unfair...
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Thursday over a new Kansas law passed in April requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions that they are ending the life of a "whole, separate, unique, living human being."...
Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma , on Friday unanimously approved a ban on the adoption of orphans by foreign same-sex couples and single foreign nationals who reside in countries where same-sex marriage is legal....
