Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenging a policy directive to defer the deportation of young illegal immigrants. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10 agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and named US Secretary [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to expedite its hearing of the challenge to the state’s new voter ID law . The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court declined to issue an injunction against the law last week. The decision prompted the challengers, 10 voters and several rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania [...]

A South Korean court ruled Friday that Apple and Samsung Electronics infringed on certain patents of the other, and the court banned the sales of some of the companies’ products in the country. The Seoul Central District Court held that Apple violated two Samsung patents related to mobile-data transfer technologies, and Samsung infringed one Apple [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it is shutting down three of the most highly trafficked Android piracy websites. This marks the first time the DOJ has seized website domains involving cell phone apps. The DOJ acted in conjunction with the FBI and Dutch and French agencies. FBI Special Agent in Charge Lamkin [...]

Germany’s Justice Ministry has introduced legislation that would grant several additional marriage rights to couples in same-sex civil unions. The move has reignited the same-sex marriage debate in Germany which legalized same-sex unions in 2001 but reserved several rights to heterosexual married couples. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, was the [...]

Egypt President Mohammed Morsi issued a new law on Thursday that bans pre-trial detentions of journalists for speaking out against the government. The new law, the first decree Morsi has issued since he granted himself executive and legislative powers last week , ends the Mubarak-era practice of jailing journalists who commit so-called “publication offenses” which [...]

The Russian Justice Ministry announced Thursday that it has filed a formal request with the US government for a copy of the verdict of reputed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout , who in April was sentenced by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to 25 years in prison . The [...]

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will face trial in September, according to Libyan prosecutors. Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity, the militiamen who captured Saif al-Islam are insisting that he be tried in Zintan, Libya, the town [...]

The African Union (AU) and the government of Senegal on Wednesday signed an agreement creating a special tribunal in Dakar to try 69-year-old ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for killing and torturing thousands of political opponents during his reign from 1982 to 1990. The agreement calls for “Extraordinary African Chambers” to be created inside the existing [...]

South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the nation’s 59-year-old ban on abortions is constitutional. The eight-judge panel was deadlocked 4-4 in deciding whether to uphold the abortion ban, but six votes were needed to overturn it. South Korea banned abortions in 1953 with exceptions for rape, incest and severe genetic disorders. The Constitutional [...]