Search Results for: 1998-12-11

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 8-0 in Morrison v. National Australia Bank that the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) does not provide a...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that a federal law criminalizing providing material support for groups designated as terrorist organizations is...

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) for Northern Ireland announced Tuesday that it is considering whether to file charges against the British soldiers responsible for civilian casualties in the 1972 Bloody Sunday attack in Londonderry....

The Hawaii House of Representatives voted 31-20 Thursday to approve legislation allowing same-sex civil unions . The act would confer upon homosexual and heterosexual couples rights and benefits equal to those...

The Hawaii House of Representatives voted 31-20 Thursday to approve legislation allowing same-sex civil unions . The act would confer upon homosexual and heterosexual couples rights and benefits equal to those...

German federal prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged former Red Army Faction (RAF) member Verena Beckman for the 1977 murders of federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and two other men. Beckman was originally arrested...

The Hawaii House of Representatives on Friday postponed indefinitely a vote on legislation that would have allowed persons in same-sex civil unions the same rights as married heterosexual couples. The postponement was...

An appeals court in Malaysia ruled on Tuesday that the country's ban on sodomy is constitutional. The court made the ruling while considering the appeal of Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahaman, who was convicted of sodomizing a 14-year-old...

Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani argued Monday that the charges against their client should be dismissed. Ghailani's lawyers argued before Judge Louis Kaplan of the US District Court...

The Malaysian high court ruled Tuesday that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will stand trial on charges on sodomy early next year. Counsel for Anwar had argued for the case to be thrown...