A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday expanded a lawsuit seeking the recognition of same-sex spouses on death certificates. Judge Timothy Black ruled in July and September ...
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The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Monday filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government of committing human rights violations in Vieques island, part of Puerto Rico....
A three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Tuesday that the Obama administration would be allowed to join the ongoing challenge to Texas' voter redistricting maps....
A new report by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) on Tuesday revealed that most countries still have legal disparities that prevent women from engaging in economic activity. The report determined...
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer filed a complaint on Wednesday against UK security forces MI5 and MI6 with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal . The complaint was filed on behalf...
A superior court judge in California ruled Tuesday that a class of plaintiffs cannot recover any money against the tobacco company Philip Morris USA . The plaintiffs in the case argued that Philip...
An appellate court in Sweden reduced the prison sentence of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg , the founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) , for hacking into a company that manages data for...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDP) Chaloka Beyani urged the transitional government of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Tuesday to do "its...
A French appeals court ruled Tuesday that an investigation may proceed into allegations that former president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited aging L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating election campaign funds. A...
US International Trade Commission (ITC) Judge Thomas Pender on Monday issued a preliminary ruling holding that HTC infringed on two patents for mobile technology held by Nokia . The patents have to...
