The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Kamehameha Schools , a private school that accepts no federal funding, can utilize an admissions policy that gives priority to...
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Italian prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to issue indictments for 26 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and five officials from the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) , including former SISMI chief Nicola...
Flavio Sosa , a leader of the popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was arrested late Monday after arriving in Mexico City for negotiations with the federal government. Sosa, a prominent figure in the...
In a letter to the chief judge presiding over his genocide trial, Saddam Hussein has said he would not attend further proceedings because he "wasn't given the chance to speak when I tried to clarify...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants convicted of conduct that is a felony under state law but is only a misdemeanor under the Controlled Substance Act are not subject to deportation under...
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Monday requested the California Supreme Court to grant a petition to review an intermediate appellate court's decision to uphold a state law prohibiting same-sex marriage [JURIST news...
The Court of Cassation in Kuwait on Tuesday reversed former Guantanamo Bay detainee Nasser al-Mutairi's conviction on terrorism charges, including endangering Kuwait's foreign relations by taking up arms against a foreign nation. Mutairi,...
The Maryland Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Monday in a case challenging a 1973 state law banning same-sex marriage . Plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy...
US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth on Monday ruled that a group of Hasidic Jewish plaintiffs could go forward with a lawsuit against the Russian government for the return of 18th century religious texts...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has announced an 18-month timetable for lifting the state of emergency that Egypt has lived under since 1981. The administration of President Hosni Mubarak will...
