The Secretaries of State from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and South Carolina filed a motion on Monday urging the US Supreme Court to block the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent order striking down the...
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France's highest administrative court on Monday reversed the ban on breeding killer whales and dolphins in captivity. The Council of State's decision to annul the ministerial decree comes less than a year after it was signed. They...
Twenty-five children and young citizens of Colombia between the ages of seven and 26 on Monday filed the first ever climate change litigation in Latin America. The plaintiffs, represented by Dejusticia, come from 17 regions classified...
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday invalidated mass surveillance as part of legislation that was passed in 2016. The legislation, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA), was passed initially as an emergency provision in 2014....
Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Monday announced his Cabinet's approval to hold a referendum on abortion in late May or early June stating the exact date will become clear after a debate and vote in the Dáil...
Federal Judge David Ezra of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Monday temporarily blocked a Texas law requiring health facilitates and abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains. A stay...
The US Senate voted 51-46 on Monday, stopping the advancement of a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The House approved the bill in October in a 237-189 vote. The bill , entitled the...
Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was reportedly charged Saturday with "inciting subversion of state officials" after writing a letter calling for reform to China's constitution. Yu was arrested outside his home in Beijing nearly two weeks ago for...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) case on Monday, reasoning that alien minors do not have a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. The court ruled [opinion,...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Sudanese government on Monday to immediately release peaceful protesters from detention or grant them full due process. The demonstrators were arrested while protesting Sudan's 2018 budget, which triples the...
