The Supreme Court of Kenya on Tuesday rejecte the participation of the main opposition coalition in petitions challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in last month’s repeat presidential election. This means that the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition will not be party to the petition challenging October 26 election. Kenyatta’s lawyers objected to the participation of [...]
Two women filed a lawsuit against Uber on Tuesday in a San Francisco federal court alleging that they had been sexually assaulted by their Uber drivers. The women claim that they are not the only ones—that drivers have been using their rail-hailing services as a platform to sexually assault and harass more than 1,000 riders. [...]
The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in favor of allowing minimum pricing in Scotland per unit of alcohol. The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing)(Scotland) Act of 2012 sought to institute minimum pricing for alcohol based on a formula factoring in the minimum price per unit, the strength of the alcohol, and the volume of the alcohol to [...]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday announced the results of a national postal survey on Australia’s marriage law in which voters voted that Australia’s marriage law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry. The “yes” vote had 61.6 percent of the national votes, and was the majority in every state and territory [...]
LGBT individuals in China are being subjected to abuses in the form of “conversion therapy,” according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to HRW, public hospitals and private clinics are utilizing so-called “conversion therapy,” regarding LGBT individuals’ identity as a disorder. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry removed [...]
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials pledged Tuesday to respect the Iraq Federal Supreme Court‘s interpretation of Article I of the Iraq Constitution , effectively agreeing not to secede. The Iraq Supreme Court stated in its decision last week that no region within the country may secede from the country. The court interpreted Article I of [...]
The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that an EU citizen who becomes a British citizen is allowed to have their non-EU spouse live with them in the UK. The ruling came in a case brought by a Spanish national who had attained dual citizenship status with Spain and the UK and then the UK [...]
An animal rights organization filed a writ of habeas corpus Monday on behalf of three elephants owned by the Connecticut-based Commerford Zoo . The writ was brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) for the confinement and mistreatment of the elephants. NhRP is seeking a status of “personhood” for the elephants but claims that “personhood” [...]
Special master in the case of Covington v. North Carolina submitted a draft plan and order yesterday that includes an initial proposal for new district maps in certain state congressional districts. This plan was drafted by special master, Nathaniel Persily , pursuant an order from a three-judge panel for the US District Court for the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban to go partially into effect. The partial ban applies to people of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad, who do not have a connection to the US, defined in the ban as, “such persons including grandparents, [...]
