A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's petition to end the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers. Judge Gladys Kessler...
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Civil liberties groups filed an amicus curiae brief Monday in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) supporting efforts by Google and Microsoft to publish data concerning how many times the government invoked federal...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday urged Egyptian authorities to address escalating violence arising after the military's ouster of president Mohamed Morsi ...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the National Security Agency (NSA) illegally surveilled "millions of...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Monday issued a temporary restraining order on a Wisconsin law that would place certain restrictions on abortion providers in the state....
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit in Harrisburg on behalf of 21 Pennsylvania residents who wish to marry their same-sex partner or who are seeking recognition by the state...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments Monday by BP alleging that the claims administrator was awarding damages to plaintiffs based on biased revenue...
Defense lawyers for detainee Ibrahim Idris have argued that he is too mentally and physically ill to remain at Guantanamo Bay in a habeas corpus petition filed at the US District Court for...
Czech prosecutors on Monday asked the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of parliament, to strip former prime minister Petr Necas of his immunity so that they may investigate his part in a...
Germany's Hagen State Court will require 92-year-old Siert Bruins, a former member of the Nazi Waffen SS to go on trial in September. Last November, Bruins was charged for the murder ...
