The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a case involving a deceased religious leader who owned ...

A Delta State High Court in Asaba has dismissed the legal challenge brought by Prince Oyowoli Emiko against the succession of Ogiame Atuwatse III as the Olu of Warri. Prince Oyowoli, son of the former ...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s 5-2 decision in Robert E. Dupuis v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland found that an expired statute of limitations timeframe amounts to a “vested right ...

Can a person born as a Muslim be governed by the Indian Succession Act — a secular law, instead of Shariat, if he/she quits Islam? A day after the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) came into effect in ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a petition filed by a non-believer Muslim woman seeking to be governed by the Indian Succession Act, 1925, instead of ...

Petitioner Safiya PM – general secretary of ‘Ex-Muslims of Kerala’ — contended that being a non-believer Muslim woman, she wanted to be governed by the secular Indian succession law to ...

58 of the Indian Succession Act 1925, Muslims were expressly excluded from the ambit of the legislation. Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan appearing for the petitioner informed the Court that a fresh ...

Succession star Brian Cox is set to return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade, starring in a play which will open this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The Scottish-born ...

It does not reflect how a judge may rule on specific cases or their own political preferences. The caseload of the Texas Supreme Court is determined by whether the court decides to grant a review of a ...

The New York Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Nassau County law prohibiting men from competing in female sports at a county-run facility is constitutional. State Supreme Court Judge Bruce ...

A comedian and writer has lost a High Court copyright battle with a production company founded by British celebrity Steve Coogan which he accused of copying the format of his series. Harry Deansway ...

The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...