The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a 2001 New York zoning ordinance that banned "adult" establishments from residential and most commercial and manufacturing zones was not a violation of the owners' First Amendment rights. The...
READ MORE ▸
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, on Tuesday called for a revolutionary overhaul of the mental health care systems around the world. Presenting his report to the UN Human Righs Council, Puras noted that, in...
Los Angeles County on Friday filed suit against Vazquez & Company, LLP , a CPA firm, alleging that the firm defrauded the county by failing to detect the embezzlement of $9 million committed by the...
Texas lawmakers on Saturday passed Senate Bill 1289 significantly expanding the scope of state laws requiring compliance with 23 CFR 635.410 , the federal "Buy America" provision that is already in effect for the Texas Department of...
The US Supreme Court held unanimously Monday in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon that the Hague Service Convention does not prohibit service of process by mail. The purpose of The Hague Service Convention is...
The human rights situation in Belarus has seen a dramatic deterioration, according to a report published Monday from Miklos Haraszti, the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus. The report notes numerous instances of rights abuses, beginning with the suppression of...
The Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) released a report on Friday that revealed the findings of a year-long investigation into human rights violations in the Yei Town, Central Equatoria area...
Prominent Thai human right lawyer Prawet Prapanukul was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of breaking Article 112 and 3 counts of breaking Article 116 of Thailand's criminal code for allegedly insulting members of the royal family....
A special federal judicial panel in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the redistricting plan adopted by the Texas legislature was drawn to deliberately diminish the influence of...
UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday called for an early general election to take place on June 8th of this year as opposed to the scheduled 2020 general election. May's decision to call for the election is...
