The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District v. SolarCity Corporation where it will determine ‘hether orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the ‘collateral-order doctrine’. The plaintiff in the case, SolarCity, is a corporate subsidiary of the electric car company Tesla that [...]

Charlottesville authorities failed to protect public safety and free speech during the August white supremacist rally that turned deadly, according to an independent report by US Attorney Timothy Heaphy found that , citing breakdowns in planning and coordination. Heaphy revealed that Virginia state police and police chief Al Thomas refused to make commanders available for [...]

Judge Pablo Llarena of the Supreme Court of Spain on Monday ordered the continued detention of four members of the Catalan National Assembly while allowing six other members freed on bail. The four men held in detention are former vice-president of Catalonia Oriol Junqueras, former interior contractor Joaquim Forn, and leaders of Catalan National Assembly [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review in the Alabama death penalty case of Floyd v. Alabama in which attorneys argue that African-American jurors were improperly excluded from the jury. The petitioner, Christopher Floyd, was tried by an all-white jury in a county in which 26 percent of its residents are African-American. Floyd’s attorneys [...]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday informed the UN of the US’ withdrawal from participation in the UN process to develop a Global Compact on Migration (GCM) The GCM is the first, intergovernmentally negotiated agreement “to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner.” Tillerson’s decision to withdraw cites [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government’s proposed plan to allow further economic development of the Peel Watershed. The court declared that the government’s plan did not act in accordance with [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Qualcomm filed three lawsuits against Apple Thursday, seeking compensation for alleged patent infringement. According to Qualcomm, Apple uses technologies that Qualcomm first marketed in the 1990s. Former national security advisor to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of making false statements to the [...]

The US Senate approved some version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by a vote of 51-49 early Saturday morning. The Senate’s consideration of the proposed legislation began at 10:00 am Friday, and more than 200 amendments were considered as part of the final bill, some of which are surely part of what the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government’s proposed plan to allow further economic development of the Peel Watershed. The court declared that the government’s plan did not act in accordance with guidelines authorized in the Umbrella Final Agreement , which [...]

Former national security advisor to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of making false statements to the FBI. The charges , brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller , are related to two specific statements that Flynn made to the FBI. In the first statement Flynn made on December 29, 2016, Flynn denied [...]