In a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, the US Supreme Court held that a federal court in a habeas corpus matter reviewing an unexplained state court decision on the merits should "look through" that decision to the...
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The US Supreme Court held 5-4 Tuesday that the term "aggravated felony" in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) , as it relates to §16(b) of the federal criminal code , is "unconstitutionally void for vagueness"...
Amnesty International (AI) released its 2017 global review of death penalty on Thursday noting a significant decrease in the imposition of death penalty sentences in Sub-Saharan African nations. AI noted key developments such as Guinea becoming the 20th state...
Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed HB 4155 into law on Monday mandating public bodies in the state to "only contract with internet service providers that operate under net neutrality", making Oregon the second state after Washington...
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday filed a motion with the president of the Court's Pre-Trial Division seeking a ruling on whether the Court may exercise jurisdiction over the alleged deportation of the Rohingya...
Ammar al Baluchi , a forty-one-year old Pakistani national accused of helping to plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has filed a motion in military court requesting it to strike down the Defense Department's restrictions on...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday rejected a complaint from a German national concerning his 2015 prosecution and conviction in a Munich court for the posting of a picture in his blog post of...
The Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in Germany confirmed Tuesday that an application has been filed by prosecutors in Germany to extradite the deposed Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont . A three-judge senate...
The California Supreme Court held Monday that Proposition 69, otherwise known as the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act (DNA Act), which authorizes and requires law enforcement officials to collect DNA samples and fingerprints...
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Prager University against Google alleging that the technology giant censored Prager's politically conservative YouTube [official...
