Search Results for: 2013-10-02

The Arkansas Senate approved a bill by a vote of 26-8 on Thursday that would prohibit abortions after the first fetal heartbeat is detected, which could be as early as five weeks into the...

A Chinese court has sentenced two Tibetans for inciting self-immolation according to a Thursday report from Xinhua , China's state news agency. The two men were charged with intentional homicide after inciting and coercing eight people...

The Dutch District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday that a subsidiary of Shell could be held liable to one farmer for damages resulting from polluting the Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria. However, the...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , the media secretary of Osama bin Laden [JURIST...

Harvard law professor Vicki Jackson argued in a brief filed Thursday that the US Supreme Court does not have the power to review the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act of...

A Milan court on Monday set a timetable for hearings in the underage sex trial of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , setting the last session of the trial for early March, two weeks...

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday expressed serious concern regarding the inefficacy of the allocation of state and donor resources used for the reconstruction of Haiti after a massive January 2010 earthquake [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to reverse the terrorism conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , the media...

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...

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced a new rule Wednesday which will make easier for undocumented immigrants to become citizens if they have an immediate relative who is an American citizen. Under existing law...