A Brazilian federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Chevron after approving a negotiated settlement, closing a lengthy legal battle over a 2011 oil spill. The leak occurred in November 2011, when a Chevron appraisal well...
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Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit in West Virginia on Tuesday challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban. The suit was filed on behalf of three local same-sex couples who are seeking the right...
The Hungarian Parliament on Monday passed a law that allows municipalities to prohibit sleeping in public places, effectively criminalizing homelessness. The law permits local authorities to declare areas prohibited for homeless people and evict those...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday rejected a request by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to dismiss a suit over subpoenaed documents relating to...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed an arrest warrant for an Ivory Coast politician charged with four counts of crimes against humanity. Charles Ble Goude is accused of working with former Ivory Coast...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday added eight new cases to its docket for the upcoming term. In Harris v. Quinn the court will determine whether a state can "compel...
The administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Monday sent a letter to the state's supreme court, appealing a lower court ruling which held that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry in the...
The Spanish government must do more to provide information on the whereabouts of individuals who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the Francisco Franco regime, experts from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, a member of parliament for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War...
US District Judge Myron Thompson approved a settlement Monday that will end segregation of HIV-positive inmates in Alabama prisons. The settlement came as a result of a 2012 decision by Thompson, who found that separating...
