The Supreme Court of Maryland has held that a former bishop of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church has no legal right to remain in a church-owned residence in Hyattsville, reversing lower court rulings that had dismissed the case under the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. The...

The Finnish parliamentarian criminally convicted for “insulting” a group by Finland’s Supreme Court has filed an application to appeal her conviction to the European Court of Human Rights this week, commencing the final legal juncture of a landmark case for freedom of speech in...