A court in Hong Kong has begun the hearing challenging the election of Hong Kong's new leader Leung Chun-ying . Chairman of the Chinese Democratic Party Albert Ho filed two separate lawsuits last month...
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday ordered a lower court to reconsider its decision ordering Florida's Dixie County Courthouse to remove a Ten Commandments monument ...
Former president of Argentina Fernando de la Rua faced trial on Tuesday on bribery charges associated with his term as president from 1999-2001. De la Rua is accused of bribing Senators for votes , including the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the FBI alleging that it illegally directed its agents to spy on Muslim communities. Judge Cormac...
Syrian forces and their supporting Shabbiha fighters have committed "war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law," according to a report released Wednesday by the UN Independent International Commission of...
A lawyer in Egypt filed an appeal on Tuesday challenging a declaration by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi , granting himself as president complete legislative and executive power. The appeal was filed in a Cairo court...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches when they tracked a suspect's cell...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday issued an order granting Google permission to appeal the grant of class action status to numerous authors who are suing the company over its...
Defense lawyers for former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , Jean-Pierre Bemba on Tuesday opened their case in the International Criminal Court . Bemba is on...
A Ukrainian Court on Tuesday postponed the tax evasion trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko after she declined to participate in the trial via a video link. A lawyer for Tymoshenko said...