A government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced on Thursday that they had filed a lawsuit seeking information about the funeral arrangements made for al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden . The US Navy reported last year that Bin Laden was buried at sea in accordance with Muslim tradition within 24 hours of his death. The [...]

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled 4-3 on Thursday that Pennsylvania’s new oil and gas law violated the state’s constitution by placing zoning rights regarding hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” solely in the hands of state authorities. Fracking is the process of injecting a high pressured mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break [...]

The Supreme Court of Israel on Friday granted a government request to delay the removal of the Migron outpost in the West Bank . The court had ordered , in a watershed decision in August 2011, that Migron be dismantled by this August, but decided to extend the deadline by three weeks after the government [...]

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed concern about the lack of progress being made at a UN conference to negotiate an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). With only two days remaining in the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty , Ban expressed concern over the “very limited progress in the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey Hoffman of the University of Houston Law Center says that the Supreme Court’s holding in Arizona v. US serves as a strong reminder of the executive branch’s power to create and enforce a coherent, and ideally compassionate, immigration policy…

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange filed suit in federal court on Thursday seeking approval of a redistricting plan passed by the Alabama state legislature in May. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia , asks the court to issue a declaratory judgment approving the plan without going through the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday reinstated a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the no-fly list maintained by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) . The appeals court, without deciding on the merits of the case, decided the case could go forward and remanded it to [...]

The UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Kenya to investigate all cases related to the 2007 post-election violence in order to avoid impunity. The OHCHR expressed concern that the proceedings against the perpetrators responsible for the violence are making slow progress and urged the government to increase efforts to address the cases. In [...]

Madoff trustee Irving Picard has asked a bankruptcy court to approve the release of between $2.5 and $3.5 billion in recovered assets so that it can be distributed to victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Picard has recovered over $9 billion in assets on behalf of Madoff victims but was previously delayed in his [...]

The North Gauteng High Court at Pretoria in South Africa on Thursday convicted of high treason the leader of an extremist group responsible for nine bombings in Johannesburg’s Soweto township in 2002. Mike du Toit, leader of the white supremacist group Boeremag , has been on trial for nine years and is the first person [...]