U.S. Court OKs Asylum Hearing Over China Birth Law
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A Chinese man whose wife was  forced by Chinese officials to abort their first child and who  faced the possibility of being sterilized may seek asylum in  the United States, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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The outcome of asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.
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China named the first baby born at a  Beijing hospital Thursday as the 1.3 billionth person of the  world's most populous nation, more than two decades after a  one-child policy was introduced to keep its numbers in check.
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NEW YORK Aug. 26, 2004 - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
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A wealthy Chinese mother who gave birth to her second child in Northern Ireland to obtain EU residence rights won her legal battle yesterday to get round China's "one-child" laws and bring up her daughter in ...
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A divided judicial panel ruled this morning that hundreds of foreign nationals detained for as long as five years at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay do not have rights to challenge their indefinite imprisonment through the U.S. court system.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Monday that China had agreed to discuss the American request for a new dialogue over the detention of Chinese citizens
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The Finnish Supreme Court has upheld its earlier ruling to grant custody of two young brothers to their American father in the United States.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A surrogate mother who has no genetic connection to the baby she is carrying does not have to be listed as the mother on a birth certificate, Maryland's highest court ruled Wednesday.
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A U.S. federal court ruled Monday that Osama bin Laden's driver was entitled to a legal hearing on whether he is a prisoner of war &#151; a landmark opinion that could prevent military trials of alleged enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Home Secretary John Reid has won the right to deport failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe on a case-by-case basis after a court ruled Wednesday that they would not automatically be ill-treated.
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A city law passed in late March would, for the first time in China, give victims legal recourse.
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The Internet giant Yahoo has asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit it called &quot;political&quot; and said its Chinese subsidiary obeyed local laws when it provided information about dissidents.
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A Japanese court on Wednesday overturned a landmark ruling ordering the Japanese government and a company to compensate Chinese who were forced to work as slave laborers in Japan during World War Two, Kyodo news agency said.
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China will unveil new rules this week  aimed at restricting the number of foreigners who can adopt  Chinese children, an official said on Wednesday, which foreign  agencies say will ban the obese and unmarried from adopting.
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The Supreme Court waded into a fierce international debate Friday over how the United States prosecutes foreigners in death penalty cases, agreeing to hear the case of a Mexican man in an unexpected move that expands the court's examination of fairness in capital punishment.
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A Chinese woman who miscarried twins after federal authorities hustled her into a van and took her to an airport to deport her will be allowed to stay in the United States, an immigration judge has ruled.