Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Sunday filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that UK government and military officials engaged in...
A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced to death a member of an extremist group convicted of producing explosives used in a May 2004 suicide attack on a western company operating in Saudi Arabia's northwestern port city of Yanbu....
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos spoke on behalf of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and encouraged the world on Sunday to do...
The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on seven cases. In Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital , the court will consider whether a hedge fund could subpoena banks for information about...
Former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader, Ariel Sharon , was pronounced dead on Saturday at the age of 85. Sharon suffered a major stroke in January of 2006, which placed him in a coma for...
Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Apple Inc. did not infringe on any of Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility patents in the creation of the iPhone. Motorola Mobility,...
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a district court ruling approving BP's settlement with parties who claim to have suffered financial loss due to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [JURIST news...
A French administrative appeals court ruled on Thursday, upholding a ban on performance by French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala that was deemed anti-semitic. Dieudonne was appealing the prohibition order issued by courts in Nantes and...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted review for ABC, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. , to decide the legality of Aereo's online service that streams and records publicly broadcast television programming without...
UN independent human rights expert Francois Crepeau on Friday urged the Spanish government to reverse its decision to extradite Alexsandr Pavlov to Kazakhstan. Pavlov, an associate of opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov, whose extradition was ordered Thursday by...