A Peruvian mother and her two teenage children filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking special permission to stay in Japan, claiming that deportation would harm the children, who were born and raised in Japan. Nelly Moreno, 51, her 15-year-old daughter and her 14-year-old son filed ...
Courts are supposed to be bastions of justice. But equal justice may be thwarted for some defendants owing to language barriers. Despite all the various training seminars and guide books preparing newly registered court interpreters for the job, the current pool of interpreters are not ...
Unease about white supremacist activity in Portland has deepened following last Friday's fatal stabbings of two men who tried to shield young women from a man making an anti-Muslim tirade, and some people worry that the famously tolerant community could see a resurgence of ...
President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence brought fresh attention to another figure involved in the U.S. Army leaker's case: Julian Assange. On Twitter last week, Assange's anti-secrecy site, WikiLeaks, posted, "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to U.S. extradition ...
Prosecutors indicted two men Friday on suspicion of intimidating lay judges during the trial of a senior member of a yakuza crime syndicate in the first such charges since Japan's lay judge system was introduced in 2009. The two are Toshimi Kusumoto, a former gang ...
Former baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara admits possessing and using illegal drugs as his trial kicks off at the Tokyo District Court.
A court in India's capital ruled Saturday that there's enough evidence in a stalking and sexual harassment case for former U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri to stand trial. Judge Shivani Chauhan announced that the next hearing in the case will be on July 11, the ...
The same state court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the United States is now being asked to decide a complicated case about the parental rights of a once-partnered but unmarried gay couple. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the state that more ...
The Tokyo District Court nullifies the dismissals of five IBM Japan employees and orders the company to pay their lost salaries following another "abuse of power."
Plaintiffs seeking to be acknowledged as victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Monday appealed a local court ruling denying them official recognition and making them ineligible for special government assistance. The appeal was filed by 151 plaintiffs who say they were within ...
The Osaka District Court on Thursday dismissed a demand by plaintiffs in Japan and Taiwan for an injunction to prevent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from making future visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The court also rejected a compensation demand by the 765 ...
A man who acknowledges killing three people in an attack on a Colorado abortion clinic defiantly told a judge Wednesday that he would not submit to a mental competency evaluation and wanted to fire his public defender and represent himself. Robert Dear, 57, interrupted Judge ...
