A committee of the French Senate voted on Wednesday to oppose a law that would outlaw genocide denial , including the World War I-era killings of more than one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers....
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday, both dealing with different aspects of immigration. In Holder v. Sawyers , consolidated with Holder v. Gutierrez, the court...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Maples v. Thomas that death row inmate Cory Maples sufficiently established cause excusing the procedural default rule when his attorney left his law firm causing Maples...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a case concerning whether a county board of commissioners in North Carolina violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by opening their public...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Golan v. Holder that Congress has the authority under the Copyright Act to restore copyright protection in foreign works where the work was never registered...
The chairman of the UKDetainee Inquiry said Wednesday that his panel will not complete their investigation into torture allegations against British intelligence agents. In his statement, Judge Peter Gibson said that the Secretary of State for...
The new policy that allows government officials to monitor Guantanamo Bay prisoners' mail dominated the opening day of pretrial hearings for Guantanamo inmate and alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on...
The Ethiopian government's relocation of thousands of indigenous people from the western Gambella region has resulted in possible human rights violations, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The Gambella relocations, which...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Mims v. Arrow Financial Services LLC that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act does not deprive the federal district courts of their federal...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on Tuesday that Madoff trustee Irving Picard cannot appeal a ruling that threw out most of his $1 billion suit...