Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Thursday announced a new policy that allows transgender individuals to serve openly in the military, effective immediately. The announcement , promised last week, lifted the ban...
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The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on Thursday struck down the state's parenthood statute for violating the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment . Indiana Code Section...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday overturned a man's drug possession and trafficking conviction because he had been made to wait too long for his trial. The man, Shane Vassal, had waited three years before...
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the exclusion of farm and ranch workers from the New Mexico's Worker Compensation Act is unconstitutional. The court relied on legislative interpretation to hold that the...
A judge for the Federal District Court for Southern Indiana placed an injunction on a restrictive abortion law Thursday, just days after the US Supreme Court found similar Texas legislation to be...
The Constitutional Court of Austria on Friday voided the results of Austria's recent presidential election and ordered that the election be repeated in its entirety. The May 22 runoff saw Green Party-backed independent Alexander...
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Muhammed Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Muslim cleric and rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , saying the court...
The Presidential Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights on Thursday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to reject a controversial collection of anti-terror bills. The Council, a government department under Putin,...
