Egypt court rules against U.S. university on face veil
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An Egyptian court ruled on Saturday that a U.S.-accredited university in Cairo was wrong to bar a female scholar who wears an Islamic face veil from using its facilities, court sources and a lawyer for the woman said.
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A federal appeals court Monday barred the Defense Department from withholding funds from colleges and universities that deny access to military recruiters.
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The University of Oklahoma has taken the first step to appealing a ruling by the NCAA that stripped the football team of its 2005 wins and found the university guilty of "failure to monitor" the employment of its athletes.
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A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial
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A Muslim dentist is found guilty of telling a patient she could not register with him unless she wore a headscarf.
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A Cairo court rejected on Tuesday an attempt by Egyptian Christians to ban a film they say damages the reputation of the country's Christian minority.
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Turkey's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment that would end a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, despite public protests.
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In a decision that could expose U.S.-based Web sites to free speech laws of other nations, a federal appeals court on Monday found that Yahoo could not escape legal action in France for violating a French ban on the sale of Nazi-related items.
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ANKARA, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thanks to an alliance between the ruling Justice  and Development (AK) and Nationalist Action (MH) parties, the  Turkish Grand National Assembly has approved legislation to lift  the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf for female students at  universities.
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The U.S. visa of a Swiss Muslim scholar who was to teach at the University of Notre Dame has been revoked, a State Department spokeswoman said Tuesday, apparently under terms of the Patriot Act.
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The declaration of University of Utah President Michael K. Young to retain the school's no-guns policy in the face of the recent Utah Supreme Court ruling that the U.'s policy banning guns violated state law is disgraceful.
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A Cairo appeals court on Monday acquitted an Al-Jazeera journalist sentenced to six months over a film that highlighted torture in Egyptian police stations but it still upheld a fine against her.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that school officials retain discretion to censor student speech that they believe may encourage illegal drug use.
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A move to lift a ban on young women students wearing headscarves at universities has renewed the battle between secularists and the government
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A Florida law that lets students from failing public schools attend private religious schools at taxpayers' expense is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl has failed in an attempted legal challenge to her school's ban on a full-face veil.
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Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.