The Missouri Senate on Wednesday fell one vote short of overriding a veto by Governor Jay Nixon and passing into law a bill implementing a controversial gun measure. After the state’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 109-49 in favor of overriding Nixon’s veto, the senate’s 22-12 vote failed to meet the required two-thirds majority. [...]
Qatar based news service Al Jazeera will take legal action against the Egyptian military government according to a press release issued Thursday. Al Jazeera has accused the regime of detaining journalists without charges or on politically motivated charges, raiding Al Jazeera offices, confiscating equipment and jamming transmission of broadcasts. According to their press release, Al [...]
The European Parliament approved legislation Thursday that creates a system of banking supervision overseen by a new centralized bank supervision authority supported by the European Central Bank (ECB) . The regulation puts in place a single supervisory mechanism that will cover 150 of the largest banks in the 17 Eurozone nations, and allows other EU [...]
The office of Italy’s president on Thursday confirmed that it has received a pardon request from a former Milan Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief who was sentenced to nine years in prison for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Robert Seldon Lady wrote to Italian
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Wisconsin’s controversial collective bargaining law is constitutional. Judge William Conley for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin held that even if public employees have the right to associate, that right does not require employers to listen. He reasoned that the law does not prohibit [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of North Dakota on Wednesday partially dismissed a lawsuit against North Dakota’s new law that prohibits “abortion for sex selection or genetic abnormalities.” US District Judge Daniel Hovland had granted the request by the Red River Women’s Clinic to drop the gender and genetic abnormalities [...]
A judge for the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme can only recover the principal amount invested without accounting for inflation over the past five years. Under the Securities Investors Protection ACT (SIPA) , defrauded investors are entitled to a return [...]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane filed criminal charges on Tuesday against XTO Energy, an Exxon Mobil subsidiary based in Fort Worth, Texas, related to a spill of more than 50,000 gallons of chemical-laced wastewater in 2010. Having already been fined $100,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in July, [...]
The Syrian government and opposition forces are responsible for mass killings of civilians and other war crimes in violation of international law, according to a Wednesday report by UN rights investigators. The 42-page report was based on 258 interviews with refugees, conducted via Skype between May 15 and July 15. The interviews were done remotely [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday rejected a new request for the extradition of Haroon Aswat, a former aide to Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , from the UK to the US. The Grand Chamber of the ECHR reasoned that the extradition of the suspect, who has been diagnosed with paranoid [...]
