The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment a petition for certiorari filed in University of California Regents v. Merrill Lynch (06-1341) , a derivative lawsuit filed in...
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Jose Padilla was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison Tuesday in connection with his conviction on terrorism-related charges. US District Judge Marcia Cooke handed down the sentence following two...
Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , has filed a formal complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) , alleging that the Kenyan government has committed crimes against humanity in using force against demonstrators...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a prison inmate cannot bring a lawsuit against federal prison guards over the handling of the inmate's possessions under the Federal Tort Claims Act . In Ali...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday ruled that France violated the rights of a lesbian woman by refusing her application to adopt a child because of her sexual preference. The French...
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) on Monday released internal Canadian government documents detailing evidence of continued mistreatment and abuse of detainees transferred by Canadian forces to Afghan authorities. The documents, originally distributed to...
Zimbabwean police banned an opposition party political march on Tuesday, setting the stage for a legal battle involving recent amendments to Zimbabwe's restrictive Public Order and Security Act , which allows police to deny any party's...
The Russian Prosecutor General's office said Tuesday it has launched a forgery investigation targeting former Russian prime minister and now opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov . According to Russian news agencies, the investigation relates to...
The government of Pakistan, which has kept Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and several other judges and lawyers under preventative detention since President Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3,...
Four professors at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh were acquitted Monday of inciting students during campus protests which caused the interim government to impose a curfew in August 2007. Eleven students...
