The New Jersey Senate on Monday voted 24-16 to approve the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act , a bill which, if enacted, would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Under the bill, marriage...

A Tunisian court on Tuesday dropped charges against former Libyan prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi for illegally entering the country, but the former figurehead under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi ...

A local Chinese court in Xiamen on Monday indicted Lai Changxing on charges of bribing Chinese government officials and running a Xiamen-based network that smuggled large quantities of goods during the 1990s. As chairman of the Yuanhua...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday heard oral arguments from minority student advocates who urged the court to reconsider California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action based on race or gender preferences in...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay , in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Monday, called for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International...

The US Department of State (DOS) on Monday dispatched a team of international law experts to Haiti to assess how to reinforce the Haitian judiciary's power and independence, according to Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille [official website,...

Apple requested that the US District Court for the Northern District of California grant a preliminary injunction against Samsung on Wednesday, to block the company from selling its new...

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed legislation Monday legalizing same-sex marriage , making Washington the eighth jurisdiction in the US to offer marriage to same-sex couples. Washington had previously granted expanded domestic partnership rights [JURIST...

The trial of seven of nine indicted Hutaree militia members began with jury selection and opening statements Monday in the US District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan . Nine members of the...

The first trial of alleged Indonesia bomber Umar Patek began Monday in the West Jakarta District Court over his role in several terrorist plots including the Jakarta church bombings in 2000 and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing ....