Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, Monday settled the lawsuits against City of Louisville for the shooting and death of Taylor in 2020. Taylor was killed in March 2020 during a botched no-knock warrant raid of her apartment by Lousiville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers. Walker’s attorney Steve Romines, in a statement to Washington Post, said: [...]

A Reuters investigation released Monday reports that Nigeria’s military has killed at least 60 children since 2009 as part of the nation’s 13-year battle against Islamic extremist organisations like Boko Haram. Under “Operation No Living Things,” soldiers were often acting on orders to interrogate, search or even kill children to prevent “a future threat.” These [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to add three cases to its 2023 docket addressing issues of securities law, the Confrontation Clause of the US Constitution and procedural remedies. The court has not yet announced when oral arguments will be heard. The first of the three cases is Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani. The case [...]

The Barbados High Court Monday issued an oral judgement striking down two laws which effectively criminalized gay sex in the island nation. Sections 9 and 12 of the Barbados Sexual Offences Act of 1992 criminalized “buggery” and acts of “serious indency” with penalties of up to life imprisonment and ten years in prison, respectively. According [...]

The Iowa District Court for Polk County Monday upheld a permanent injunction on S.F. 359, a 2018 law restricting abortion at about six weeks, once an abdominal ultrasound can detect fetal cardiac activity. District Judge Celene Gogerty ruled that no specific rule exists to dissolve permanent injunctions under the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure or [...]

G7 leaders and EU foreign ministers Monday held several meetings to discuss the implementation of new sanctions against Iran and economic support for Ukraine in the country’s ongoing war against Russia. EU foreign ministers adopted a new round of sanctions against Iran and discussed, but did not yet adopt, further sanctions against Russia. G7 leaders [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday issued a one-page order staying a lower court’s preliminary injunction of a New York law which restricts gun possession on private property. The court is in the process of setting an expedited briefing schedule to hear an appeal filed by defendant and Superintendent of the New [...]

EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell called for calm on Monday amid violence across Kosovo’s ethnic Serbian north. Recent political flashpoints have reignited decades of tensions between minority Serbs and majority Kosovo Albanians. Borrell ordered, “arricades must be removed immediately by groups of Kosovo Serbs. Calm must be restored.” He also demanded that all parties [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to hear a second challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. The court asked the parties to brief and argue whether the borrowers suing to block the program have Article III standing, and whether the Department of Education’s (DOE) plan is “statutorily authorized and was adopted [...]

The judiciary of Iran Monday announced the execution of protester Majidreza Rahnavard, who was hanged publicly in Mashhad. Rahnavard was arrested 23 days ago, following his involvement with the nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. According to Mizan, a state-linked news source for Iran’s judiciary, the Mashhad Revolutionary Court convicted Rahnavard of killing two [...]