A court in Lucknow, India, on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people, including former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani, of conspiring to destroy a historic mosque in 1992. Twenty-eight years ago the Babri Masjid, a mosque in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was razed to the ground by a vast crowd of Hindus who [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in favor of three Pueblo Indian tribes Tuesday in a water rights case. The decision is part of a nearly 40-year-old dispute over water rights in the Jemez River Basin in central New Mexico. The pueblos of Jemez, Santa Ana and Zia claim those rights, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a federal court’s six-day deadline extension for Wisconsin absentee ballots Tuesday. The Seventh Circuit’s decision followed after Wisconsin Secretary of Elections Commission Marge Bostelmann, the Wisconsin State Legislature, Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Wisconsin appealed the lower court’s extension. The appeals court [...]

In a new report Wednesday from Techcrunch, lawyers applying to join the DC Bar revealed that the personal documents and data of thousands of DC Bar users were exposed in a security leak. The security gap was discovered on August 26 by an unknown whistleblower who attempted to contact both the DC Bar and multiple [...]

A Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that students must be allowed to use locker rooms that align with their gender identity. The appeal stems from a case in which a transgender high school student, referred to as N.H., was threatened discipline should he continue to use the boys’ locker room. N.H. was born female [...]

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a conservative legal group concerned with election integrity, filed a suit in the Texas Supreme Court Saturday to prevent what it alleged was noncitizen voter registration in Harris County, Texas. PILF alleges that Voter Registrar of Harris County Ann Harris Bennett has registered voter applications that did not affirm [...]

Turkish prosecutors on Monday filed a second indictment against six Saudi individuals suspected in the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Turkish state media. Saudi Arabian dissident and Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in 2018. After arriving at the Saudi consulate in Turkey to retrieve paperwork for a planned marriage, [...]

The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled Monday that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 (PLCAA), a federal gun industry protection law, is unconstitutional. In 2016 a 13-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed by his friend when the friend mistakenly believed that a gun was unloaded. The boy’s parents sued Springfield Armory, [...]

Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced Tuesday that after reviewing the evidence against 15 British soldiers suspected of killing civilians in Derry on “Bloody Sunday,” January 30, 1972, they will maintain the decision not to pursue prosecution. Tuesday’s decision, announced in a statement from the PPS, upholds an earlier decision from March 2019. The [...]

Ridesharing giant Uber prevailed in an English court case on Monday, obtaining a license to continue operating in London that had previously been denied by the city’s transportation authority. Transport for London (TfL), the governmental entity responsible for regulating transportation in the London metropolitan area, refused to renew Uber’s taxi service license in September 2017. [...]