The Illinois House of Representatives on Monday approved a new criminal justice reform bill by a vote of 83-26 during the latest meeting of the General Assembly. The bill would amend the Illinois Criminal Justice Information...
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion Monday to stay a federal court order preventing the federal government from enforcing an Affordable Care Act (ACA) regulation that protects transgender people and women...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other international and local human rights groups on Tuesday asserted that the Pakistan government should investigate whether four missing anti-Taliban activists were abducted by the Taliban. HRW noted that the four...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a ruling Tuesday refusing to exempt two Swiss Muslim students from compulsory mixed sex swimming lessons for religious reasons. The court explained that the...
The Supreme Court of Gambia has postponed until May the suit President Yahya Jammeh filed after he was defeated by Adama Barrow in the country's general election. Chief justice Emmanuel Fagbenle said that the seven-member panel that will...
Liberty , a UK-based advocacy group, announced Tuesday that it had met its crowding funding goal to launch a legal challenge against recently passed surveillance legislation. Among other provisions, the Investigatory Powers Act ...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman . This case focuses on the fees charged by credit card companies to merchants whenever customers pay with a...
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions began his confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the position of attorney general in the cabinet of President-elect Donald Trump . During the hearing, he was...
The Venezuelan Supreme Court on Monday annulled Parliament's decision to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolás Maduro , ruling that the action went beyond Parliament's constitutional power . The High Court reaffirmed...
A new report released Monday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) shows that children in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of the nutritional crisis, despite attempts at administering food aid. OCHA...
