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  1. AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will file a lawsuit to block the Netherlands from ratifying...

  2. CAIRO (AP) — A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong...

  3. May 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against the Christian...

  4. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is showing renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union, now...

  5. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the...

  6. BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her...

  7. The indictment against Ratko Mladic — who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands...

  8. BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Central Council of Jews says Holocaust survivor and scholar Arno Lustiger has died at age 88.

  9. BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An international human rights group says the West African state of Mali is suffering its worst...

  10. WASHINGTON (AP) — A memorial service will honor the life of Watergate figure-turned-evangelist Charles Colson. Colson...

  11. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military...

  12. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author...

  13. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Marco Scutaro homered off closer Santiago Casilla to lead off the ninth inning and lift the...

  14. LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) — A judge threw out "Octomom" Nadya Suleman's bankruptcy claim Tuesday after she failed to file...

  15. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from 2009 revelations that its founder was a pedophile...

  16. CAIRO (AP) — At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV...

  17. BEIRUT (AP) — A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes...

  18. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday President Barack Obama's support for increased federal debt...

  19. Edward Marcus suffered severe injuries to his spine and shoulders when a tree fell on him during a softball game. The...

  20. OSLO, Norway (AP) — An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where...

  21. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia,...

  22. LONDON (AP) — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of...

  23. PARIS (AP) — Francois Hollande became the president of France on Tuesday in a ceremony steeped in tradition, taking...

  24. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with...

  25. PARIS (AP) — Francois Hollande became president of France after a ceremony Tuesday at the Elysee Palace in central...

  26. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare...

  27. BEIJING (AP) — China's economic growth has fallen from overheated to slower than Beijing wanted in just half a year. ...

  28. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buster Posey hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat...

  29. Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 136th day of 2012. There are 230 days left in the year. On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. ...

  30. TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Lebanese gunmen clashed in street...

  31. CAIRO (AP) — A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of...

  32. Now that reports have spread on the alleged arrangement with the local rabbis to screen molestation accusations, and widespread...

  33. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war...

  34. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Long-running arguments over who needs to do what to stop the planet from overheating are back in...

  35. THE HAGUE, May 13 (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial this week in a case that...

  36. BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted Monday that a heavy state election defeat for her party won't...

  37. BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that a heavy state election defeat for her party in Germany's...

  38. VIENNA (AP) — A senior U.N. nuclear agency official urged Iran on Monday to allow access to sites, people and...

  39. May 14 (Reuters) - A sculptor may recover royalty payments from the U.S. Postal Service, which used an image of the...

  40. Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast...

  41. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — From his prison cell, a senior Pakistani officer accused of plotting with a shadowy Islamist...

  42. KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in...

  43. Today is Saturday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2012. There are 233 days left in the year. On May 12, 1937, Britain's...

  44. NEW YORK (AP) — When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up '60s, corporal punishment was the norm...

  45. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court judge leaned forward in his chair, turned his head to the Justice...

  46. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court judge leaned forward in his chair, turned his head to the Justice...

  47. CHICAGO (AP) — They didn't look or act like the police officers in the famous black-and-white film clips, wading...

  48. In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a...

  49. RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Barack Obama returned his attention to the economy after a day spent raising millions of...

  50. RENO, Nev. (AP) — The presidential candidates tried to put aside politically risky talk of gay rights Friday and...

Legal Headlines

  1. Longtime readers may recall our discussion of Orthodox Jewish divorce, in our July 22, 2011 blog post. Under...

  2. Have you ever prayed during work or requested time off due to a religious belief? Most employees understand that...

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    We have the freedom to belong to a particular religion and the ability to change our religious affiliation if we so...

  4. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Usee, Inc. , et al, Case No. 3:12-cv-01325-M (N.D.Tex.) (filed April 30, 2012) Recently,...

  5. A group of Dallas, Texas, area men recently filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit, claiming they were fired from...

  6. A New Jersey man won an appeal that will expand the definition of our state's anti-discrimination laws. The appeals...

  7. A couple's religion can often play a huge role in divorce. If they choose to be, a husband and wife are morally...

  8. A Gannon University student, placed on life support after falling from a fraternity house balcony in April, was...

  9. Leaders from local Muslim groups have engaged in successful talks with the administrators at the St. Louis County...

  10. Anti-discrimination laws are designed to protect certain groups that are susceptible to harassment or discrimination...

  11. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently obtained an emergency court order to halt an ongoing Ponzi scheme...

  12. Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan has a problem with a formerly married couple's religious divorce. The issue is not with...

  13. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged a self-described "Social Capitalist" with running a Ponzi...

  14. As part of a six month drug sting, three more Texas Christian University football players have been charged with...

  15. We have often written that parents can face jail time for failure to pay child support. This issue is especially...

  16. The parenting plan can be one of the trickiest aspects of a couple's split whether that couple is native to Maryland...

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    Throughout its history, our country has espoused the values of religious liberty, and those values are securely...

  18. An AutoZone employee who'd converted to the Sikh religion suffered employment discrimination when he was told he...

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    Today is Easter Sunday, and we hope it is a special day for you and your family to be together. One of our favorite...

  20. More than a dozen people are facing trial after being accused of being involved with a sex trafficking ring run by...

  21. Running outside of state lines to skirt child support obligations is a futile effort. Law enforcement from all over...

  22. The Trinity Broadcasting Network has been accused of financial fraud by a former employee. The employee who filed the...

  23. A 36-year-old Utah man was recently charged for allegedly extorting money and sex from a 21-year-old male Brigham...

  24. This month, the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned Pennsylvania authorities to investigate NYPD surveillance...

  25. A religious discrimination lawsuit brought by one NASA computer specialist is set to go to trial in Los Angeles soon. Re

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    A recently released report regarding the alleged drug trafficking on the campus of Texas Christian University...

  27. Earlier this month, we posted about an opinion piece written by journalist John Stossel, who argued that there is...

  28. Many Maryland employers know that Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is illegal for employers to...

  29. The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that 24 states are considering proposals to outlaw the...

  30. Pat Robertson, a recognized name on the Christian Broadcasting Network revealed that he supports the legalization of...

  31. A Virginia-based stone contracting company has been ordered to pay $40,000 in relation to a claim that it was...

  32. Some of the most serious types of charges an individual could be accused of are sex crimes that involve children. ...

  33. A Jewish woman who plans to leave the strict Hasidic community is battling for custody of her four children. Her...

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    Residents of Fort Worth, Texas, and the surrounding area, including Plano, were stunned after police arrested 18...

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    As one of the most, if not precisely the most, important pieces of a Georgia divorce proceeding, the child custody agreement...

  36. We've all read about various workplace discrimination cases, but there may soon be a rise in religious claims in the...

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