A group of Swiss intellectuals on Sunday called for a reversal of Switzerland's recent vote to ban the construction of minarets . The Swiss intellectual group Club Helvetique told a Swiss newspaper that they...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that several contractors responsible for dredging the Mississippi River, which some claim exacerbated damage from Hurricane Katrina , cannot be held liable...
A US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that a school district's policy prohibiting the performance of religious holiday songs does not violate the First Amendment Establishment Clause ....
The Trial Chamber of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday denied a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic requesting appellate review of the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed five civil suits Friday against two Luzerne County, PA judges accused of taking kickbacks in exchange for sentencing juveniles to private detention facilities....
The District of Columbia Board of Election and Ethics ruled Tuesday that Washington DC's Jury and Marriage Act (JAMA) , which allows DC to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for the third time vacated a trial court's sentence of former HealthSouth executive Ken Livesay for being too lenient Monday, remanding...
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday overturned the genocide conviction and 20-year prison sentence for Protais Zigiranyirazo , ruling that the the...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled Tuesday that license plates produced by the state bearing a picture of a cross in front of a stained glass window...
A French court on Tuesday ordered the country's government to extend adoption rights to a gay woman. The court held that French adoption law , which currently allows single people to adopt children but bars...
