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US Appeals Court Rejects Cosby Accuser’s Bid to Revive Defamation Suit

October 19, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Reuters BOSTON—A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid to revive a defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby by an actress who said the entertainer raped her in 1974 and then called her a […]

Guilty Verdict in Boston ISIS Beheading Plot

October 19, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by Reuters BOSTON—A Boston-area man was found guilty on Wednesday of conspiracy to commit acts of international terrorism and supporting ISIS for a 2015 plot to attack police and behead a conservative blogger who organized […]

Body Found Of Missing Kindergarten Teacher Who Was Last Seen Bailing Out Felon

October 18, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by Catherine Townsend FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Flagstaff police have found a body that they believe is that of a 44-year-old Phoenix-area kindergarten teacher who went missing after posting bond for a felon. The remains of […]

Pacific experts meet in Fiji to discuss law on armed conflict

October 11, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by TIMOCI VULA Update: 1:51PM EXPERTS from across the Pacific will convene in Nadi this month for the region’s first-ever forum dedicated to discussion of the branch of international law governing armed conflict. Fijian President […]

Supreme Court to Decide Public Employee Self-Incrimination Case

October 11, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Lisa Soronen (Lisa Soronen is executive director of the State and Local Legal Center and a frequent contributor to the NCSL Blog on judicial issues.) It has been a while since the U.S. Supreme […]

Sale of acids to under-18s to be banned, Amber Rudd says

October 3, 2017 zoshinuk 0

The government will ban the sale of acids to anyone under the age of 18, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said. Her pledge, at the Conservative Party conference, comes as more than 400 attacks using […]

Contaminated blood: Victims can launch court damages action

September 26, 2017 zoshinuk 0

Victims of the contaminated blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s have won a ruling allowing them to launch a High Court action to seek damages. An official of the court said it was “appropriate” […]

Submissions made on Lubanga reduction of sentence, and Bensouda participates in UNGA meeting

September 26, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by Margaux Lenormand Submissions from Defence, Prosecution and OPCV on Lubanga reduction of sentence: On 21 September, in the Lubanga case, Defence, Prosecution and OPCV filed observations submissions to the Appeals Chamber on the reduction […]

Sadistic killer Jason Marshall jailed for 39 years

September 26, 2017 zoshinuk 0

Sadistic killer Jason Marshall, who was filmed murdering a man during a bondage sex session, has been jailed for 39 years. Marshall, 28, posed as an MI5 agent before torturing and smothering 58-year-old Peter Fasoli […]

Full federal court to hear ‘Making a Murderer’ appeal

September 26, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By todd richmond, associated press A federal appeals court will consider arguments Tuesday over whether detectives tricked a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series into confessing and whether he should go free […]

Human Rights

Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

Human Rights

Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

Human Rights

France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]

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US Appeals Court Rejects Cosby Accuser’s Bid to Revive Defamation Suit

Guilty Verdict in Boston ISIS Beheading Plot

Body Found Of Missing Kindergarten Teacher Who Was Last Seen Bailing Out Felon

Pacific experts meet in Fiji to discuss law on armed conflict

Supreme Court to Decide Public Employee Self-Incrimination Case

Sale of acids to under-18s to be banned, Amber Rudd says

Contaminated blood: Victims can launch court damages action

Submissions made on Lubanga reduction of sentence, and Bensouda participates in UNGA meeting

Sadistic killer Jason Marshall jailed for 39 years

Full federal court to hear ‘Making a Murderer’ appeal