A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit on Friday from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission...
A Milan court on Saturday dismissed corruption charges against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , finding that the statute of limitations had expired. Berlusconi was on trial for allegedly bribing his British tax lawyer,...
A pro-same-sex marriage group in Maine, EqualityMaine , has gathered enough signatures to place a same-sex marriage referendum on the November ballot. The question reads: "Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex...
A federal immigration judge in Florida decided Thursday that former El Salvador General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova can be deported for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed while in El Salvador. Judge James Grim found that...
Former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic , accused the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of being "biased" against Serbs and a "puppet" of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...
Former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar on Thursday accepted legal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia . The civil suit was brought...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern Thursday over the investigation into post-election violence in the Ivory Coast in 2010 and 2011 and advocated six-month extension of the probe. HRW's primary concern rests...
The Advancement Project filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of four other rights groups alleging that the new Wisconsin voter ID law, Wisconsin Act 23 , is unconstitutional because it is racially discriminatory. The...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning , joined by attorneys general from six other states, filed a lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska challenging new health care mandates that...
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Margot Wallstrom on Thursday presented the Secretary-General's annual report on conflict-related sexual violence to the UN Security Council . The report documents numerous conflict-related sexual...