The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company against a 2005 Vermont health care law that required health insurance providers to release data regarding the amount paid on...
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The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) released a report Tuesday condemning Greece for police abuse, poor prison conditions and mistreatment of detained juveniles. The report details...
A federal lawsuit was filed on Monday against the governor of Mississippi challenging the state flag, the last one in the country that bears the Confederate battle emblem. Carlos Moore, the Mississippi native and civil rights lawyer that...
A UN human rights body was urged Monday to place more of a focus on women in disaster reduction and relief measures. Speaking to a special convention on the relationship between gender and disaster reduction and climate...
The head of the UN mission in Kosovo said Monday that Kosovo is set to face "complex challenges" this year and should shift focus towards more fundamental issues "such as the intrinsic links between post-conflict development, enforcement of...
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday that Germany may place "residence conditions" on refugees. The case was brought by a Syrian couple who, upon arriving in Germany, were made aware that as...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Monday denied a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to order Apple to disable the security of an iPhone that was seized...
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 on Tuesday in Lockhart v. US that the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for child pornography possession applies when the offender has been previously convicted of sexual abuse...
Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo resigned on Monday amid pushback from the ruling Worker's Party over his failure to reign in the corruption investigation targeting public officials, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva . Cardozo...
Former head of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, failed to appear before a French court on Tuesday to answer a subpoena to appear for questioning on his involvement...
