City and town clerks in Massachusetts may issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples from New Mexico, according to recent instructions from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records . A July 18 internal notice to municipal employees said that...
A Zimbabwean judge has released 13 opposition activists held by the government because police faked evidence against them, defense lawyers said Thursday. All 13 belong to the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change , and had been held...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russian authorities were responsible for the shooting death of 11 unarmed civilians in Chechnya and ordered Russia to pay damages and court expenses totaling 163,864...
Former Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is threatening to go on a hunger strike, his son Ziad Aziz told AFP Thursday. Ziad says that Aziz and 14 other detainees are threatening...
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued subpoenas for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Deputy Director of Political Affairs J. Scott Jennings Thursday in the ongoing probe of the US Attorney firings scandal...
Case of Musayev and Others v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, July 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in...
US District Judge James Munley ruled Thursday that two anti-illegal immigration laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania are unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction prohibiting the...
Pedro Lozano, et al. v. City of Hazleton, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, July 26, 2007 [ruling that two anti-immigration laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania are unconstitutional because they disrupt the federal scheme...
A federal judge Thursday ordered the federal government to pay Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati , and the families of two other men who died while in jail over $101 million after finding the government liable for...
Four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement Thursday asking Clement to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "may have misled Congress or...