The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a so-called "sore loser" election law in South Carolina. Under the law, a candidate that seeks a nomination from multiple parties will be banned from appearing on the ballot if any one of those parties rejects his candidacy. The ACLU is representing Eugene [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a claim brought by the mother of a special education student that her child's Fourth and Fourteenth amendment rights were violated when he was given "timeouts." Jennifer Couture sued the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and three individual school officials for placing her child, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of a shareholder securities suit against Biogen Idec , in which the class of plaintiffs accused directors of violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by intentionally misrepresenting the safety of its multiple-sclerosis drug, Tysabri , in order to sell their [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled  Thursday that in a mixed-motive employment discrimination case, the plaintiff must show he or she objectively met minimum requirements for the job. The issue had not been addressed by other circuits, and came before the court in a lawsuit by former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [...]

Guantanamo Bay detainee Djamel Ameziane Wednesday filed a complaint against the US with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) , alleging that he had been tortured, given inadequate medical treatment, and denied other basic rights. The complaint was filed on Ameziane's behalf by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and [...]

Convicted murderer Heliberto Chi on Thursday became the second foreign national to be put to death in Texas since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the US to stay such executions. The US Supreme Court refused to grant either a stay or certiorari just hours before the Honduran man was executed at 6 pm [...]

Angie Perone : "The Third Circuit's recent decision in DeJohn v. Temple University did not crumble important protections for students and workers in a school setting. The Court's conclusion that Temple University's sexual harassment policy was unconstitutional was based on the policy's failure to include particular language already embedded in federal law. Free speech is [...]

War crimes suspect and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic has submitted a document to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserting that he was granted an immunity deal by former US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke , conditioned on his removing himself from public life. The ICTY made the document available Thursday, [...]

Salim Ahmed Hamdan was sentenced Thursday to five and a half years in prison following his conviction Wednesday of providing material support for terrorism through his association with Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders. Hamdan had pleaded for leniency after apologizing for the deaths caused by his counterparts, and was given credit for [...]

Former Enron executives convicted on charges related to the 2001 accounting scandal may be eligible for new trials, depending on the outcome of an appeal by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling . Skilling was convicted under a theory of "deprivation of honest services," which allows for the prosecution of people who enabled fraud but did [...]