The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Rehberg v. Paulk that government officials have the same immunity for grand jury testimony under a 42 USC § 1983 action as they do...

Settlement negotiations between Oracle and Google mediated by the US District Court for the Northern District of California broke down on Friday. The case is now set to head for trial [IDG News...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington that a suspect's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when he was strip searched...

Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General on Monday granted a request for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment outside of the jail in...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a letter Monday to the chief of staff of the Philippines military, Lt. Gen. Jesse Dellosa, urging the Philippines to act on multiple human rights abuses and hold violators...

A Mali leader announced on Sunday that he would reinstate the country's 1992 Constitution and create a transitional government to hold elections. Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led Malian soldiers in a military coup [JURIST...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Moncrieffe v. Holder to determine whether a conviction under a provision of state law that encompasses, but is not limited to, the...

A Pakistani court convicted three widows and two daughters of Osama Bin Laden for illegally entering and residing in the country. The court ordered these five women, who were arrested on March 3, to...

Lawyers for Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and members of the Bahrain opposition appealed a conviction on Monday for anti-state charges to the Court of Cassation. Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a military court and is...

The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Palestinian family's appeal claiming ownership of a historic property in Jerusalem. The Husseini family claimed that they are the rightful heirs and owners of land that was once the...