Court lifts gag order on India gang rape trial
A defense lawyer says an Indian court has ruled that the media should be allowed to cover the trial of four men accused in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December.
A defense lawyer says an Indian court has ruled that the media should be allowed to cover the trial of four men accused in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December.
US President Barack Obama’s administration threw its weight behind gay marriage on Thursday, urging the Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban on same-sex unions.
A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.
Who’s got the right man? Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Monday said that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) had each tagged a different suspect in the death of 7-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella.
A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim didn’t put up a fight during her assault and that if someone doesn’t want sexual intercourse, the body “will not permit that to happen.”
The Court of Appeals has allowed to expire a freeze order on the bank accounts of a senior Moro Islamic Liberation Front leader.
Claiming there was “lack of probable cause,” former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Director Manuel Morato asked the Sandiganbayan Friday to dismiss the plunder charges filed against him by the Ombudsman.
Taiwan’s High Court on Friday quashed the convictions of three men sentenced to death over the murder of a couple 21 years ago, bringing an end to one of the island’s most controversial cases.
The Supreme Court has upheld a 2007 Court of Appeals decision denying the motion to dismiss filed by the Philippine International Air Terminals Company Inc. (Piatco), builder of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal III.
After a divisive impeachment trial that led to the ouster of his successor, former Chief Justice Reynato Puno said Friday the next leader of the Supreme Court should be one who can heal the wounds inflicted by impeachment process and keep the independence of the court while cooperating with the other branches of the government.
During his first State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III exposed the greed of executives sitting at the top of government-owned and controlled firms who awarded themselves with bonuses, allowances and other perks.
“I don’t speak to a mistress who stole my husband.” This was the declaration of Alicia Rita Arroyo, wife of Representative Ignacio Arroyo, before a Quezon City judge as he ponders whether to grant an order in her favor or for her late husband’s partner, Grace Ibuna.
Unrepentant to the last, the Nigerian “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a packed airliner in a botched Al-Qaeda plot on Christmas Day 2009 was handed multiple life sentences by a US judge Thursday.
