The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC —a patent infringement case—vacating a portion of the opinion and remanding it to a lower court. In SCA...
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Tuesday by making a statement emphasizing the importance of curtailing hate speech. Highlighting the racially motivated...
The Texas Senate approved bills on Wednesday that would prevent doctors from encouraging abortions to avoid lawsuits from birth defects and to require doctors to ensure a fetus is deceased before performing certain procedures. Texas Bills 25...
Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Monday signed amendments to SB 196 , repealing language that barred "advocacy of homosexuality" in Utah public schools. The bill was amended to bar advocacy of "any premarital or extramarital sexual...
The Ganges and Yumana rivers were granted the same legal rights as people by the high court in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Monday. The two rivers are considered sacred by Indians but have faced...
Republican lawmakers on Monday released two amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) , the proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , in an effort to appeal to both conservative and liberal critics. Besides...
The US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that acting officers of federal agencies who were appointed by the president to fill a vacancy temporarily cannot act in that capacity after being officially nominated to the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable seizure can continue after the legal process has concluded. In Manuel v. City of Joliet , the court reversed the lower...
The Maryland House of Delegates approved legislation on Monday to bar police statewide from checking the immigration status of individuals they arrest or from stopping an individual for the purposes of suspected immigration violations. The...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Michael Lynk warned Tuesday of worsening conditions for human rights workers in the region. Lynk called...
