Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have made the Bible the state's official book. Haslam stated that the bill violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution as well as Article...
A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...
The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil on Friday denied President Dilma Rousseff's injunction request to suspend an upcoming lower house vote regarding her looming impeachment. A lower house committee voted earlier...
The Second District Court of Appeal for the state of California upheld the state's teacher tenure law on Thursday, overturning a lower court's 2014 decision . Those opposing the law claimed that providing teachers strong...
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss raised by three gun companies who are being sued by families affected by the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. The ten families filed...
Microsoft sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday regarding the privacy of their customers' emails. Microsoft filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday asked a federal judge to issue an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed in February . The ACLU is attempting to block a...
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied creditors seeking to keep in place court-ordered protections following Argentina's 2001 default of $100 billion in bonds. Investors who had paid full price for their...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein , on Thursday urged Iran to stop executions over drug offenses pending the debate of a law that would remove the mandatory death penalty as punishment...
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiangon announced Wednesday that his license to practice law was revoked by the judicial bureau. The bureau allegedly disbarred Pu from practicing law because of a December criminal conviction associated with...