Attorneys for Edith Windsor , the respondent in US v. Windsor , filed a brief with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ...
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Judge Gerard van Ham of The Hague District Court on Tuesday rejected a request to block the extradition of suspected al Qaeda terrorist Sabir Khan to the US. Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten ...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday against Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and other state officials. The...
The Turin Court of Appeals in Italy on Thursday sentenced two former advisers to the Italian car company Fiat to one year and four months in prison for misleading the market in 2005 when the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Florida v. Harris that an alert from a well-trained narcotics detection dog certified to detect illegal contraband is sufficient to establish probable cause for the search...
Egypt's National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on Thursday appealed a court order banning YouTube because it features the controversial film Innocence of Muslims . The film, which sparked violent protests...
A group of UN experts on Thursday urged Venezuela to release Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni from prison. Afiuni has been incarcerated since 2009 after she freed a prisoner that the government of President...
France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved a bill on Tuesday which extends marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples. The bill was approved by a vote of...
Amnesty International (AI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on Wednesday called upon Haiti to ensure that Jean-Claude Duvalier is brought to justice. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in...
Two UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed concern over the death sentence imposed by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICBT) on Abdul Kalam Azad for crimes during the 1971...
