A judge for the for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Monday extended a permanent injunction prohibiting clerks in Mississippi from recusing themselves from issuing mariage licences to same-sex couples for religious...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday held that Google and Viacom are not liable for planting "cookies" on children's computers to gather data for advertisers. In a class...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his support for the end to torture under all circumstances on Monday. Speaking on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture , Ban called the legal prohibition of...
A lawsuit is accusing a Louisiana judge of running a modern-day debtors' prison. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center , alleges that Judge Robert Black is sending poor defendants to jail when they...
Germany's top court ruled Tuesday that a bond-buy program created by the European Central Bank (ECB) complies with German law. The unlimited bond-buying program was created at the height of Europe's debt crisis. The...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Utah v. Strieff that evidence seized incident to a lawful arrest on an outstanding warrant is not excluded because that warrant was discovered during an unlawful stop....
The US Supreme Court upheld several provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) on Monday. In Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee the court heard arguments on whether the Patent Trial and...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld the net-neutrality regulations designed to ensure an open Internet. Last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed new rules [JURIST...
In response to the mass killing in Orlando, the UN's top human rights official on Tuesday urged the US to increase its gun control measures. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated...
The US Supreme Court vacated and remanded a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Monday in Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc . The court held in a unanimous decision that...
