Search Results for: 2003-08-05

On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law. The act defines marriage as between one man and one woman for the purpose of excluding homosexual couples from the institution of marriage. DOMA also exempts state-recognized same-sex marriages...

Human trafficking occurs across the globe, but the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) reports that it is more prevalent in regions of conflict. Women and children are more likely to become victims, and on August 30, 2005, the UN High...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six new cases on Friday. In Salinas v. Texas the court will consider the boundaries of the Fifth Amendment right to remain...

A military contractor that was accused in a lawsuit by former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison of conspiring to torture detainees has paid $5.28 million to detainees held at the prison and other US detention...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of New Jersey immigrants challenging mandatory detention procedures. The policy in question is 8 USC § 1226(c) , which...

A Russian court on Wednesday reduced the sentence of the former business partner of jailed Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky by three years. Platon Lebedev has been incarcerated since...

Germany is seeking the extradition of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man who is accused of committing war crimes as an SS Guard at Auschwitz concentration camp, the Associated Press (AP) reported Sunday. Retired Toolmaker Johann Breyer told the...

Opponents of Proposition 8 , California's statewide ban on same-sex marriage urged the US Supreme Court on Friday not to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari submitted ...

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 Russian court on Wednesday reduced the sentence of the former business partner of jailed Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky . Platon Lebedev has been incarcerated since 2003 for various...