The Permanent Court of Arbitration has published a decision that Philip Morris must pay substantial legal fees to the Australian government for a failed suit the tobacco company brought concerning cigarette packaging laws. In 2011 Australia,...
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Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo López was released from a military prison Saturday on house arrest after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered his release due to health concerns. López...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday extended his ruling that Iraqi nationals with orders to leave the US cannot be deported for another two weeks. The order...
A wounded officer in a Baton Rouge shooting last year filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana Friday alleging that Black Lives Matter and five...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday dismissed Hawaii's appeal to challenge the rules of the Trump administration's travel ban. The three-judge panel decided that the court did not have jurisdiction, clarifying...
The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale issued a joint statement on Friday apologizing to former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr for violating his rights under the...
UN member states voted 122-1 Friday to adopt the first ever multilateral legally binding treaty on nuclear disarmaments. The one vote against the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came...
The US Supreme Court issued an order Friday allowing enforcement of Wisconsin's fetal protection law. The law gives courts jurisdiction over an "unborn child" and "expectant mother" when the mother "habitually lacks self-control" in the use...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Friday that citizens have a First Amendment right to record police performing their duties. The court found that officers, "are public officials carrying out public functions,...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Hawaii on Thursday denied the state's attempt to exempt grandparents from President Donald Trump's travel ban. The state asked Judge Derrick Watson to...
