Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has begun distributing compensation to victims of Bernie L. The legal world is a busy place. A federal judge, on Thursday signed a settlement agreement ending a land dispute between private citizens and Texas officials against [...]
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a per curiam order Thursday vacating a decision by the Commonwealth Court to stay a hearing in a gerrymandering case, League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . The outcome of the case is virtually guaranteed to have a substantial impact on the results of the upcoming [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has begun distributing compensation to victims of Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC’s (BLMIS) Ponzi scheme. The first set of distributions involve $722.5 million that will be distributed to 24,631 victims. The distribution is the largest distribution of forfeited funds in the DOJ’s history. The [...]
The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn’t get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed Monday to an en banc review of the most recent version of the Trump administration’s travel ban . Oral [...]
A federal judge, on Thursday signed a settlement agreement ending a land dispute between private citizens and Texas officials against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over territory on the Red River. The landowners and state officials sued the BLM over the agency’s plan to redraw boundary lines along 116 miles of the Red [...]
The Philippines Office of the Ombudsman (OTO) has anti-graft and corruption charges Tuesday against former Philippines president Benigno Aquino III in connection to the Mamasapano battle , which left 44 elite cops dead following a firefight with Islamic rebel groups. Earlier this year, the OTO dropped the homicide charges brought against Aquino after the battle. [...]
The US State Department announced Wednesday that it will end the Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program, an Obama-era immigration initiative that sought to resettle “children and eligible family members who are nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.” CAM was established as a response to the thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central [...]
Texas officials on Wednesday executed Rubén Cárdenas Ramírez, a Mexican national who was convicted in 1998 for the kidnap, rape and murder of his 16-year-old cousin, despite international pressure. The US Supreme Court had denied a writ of certiorari as well as an appeal to stay the execution on Wednesday. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto [...]
Saudi authorities have detained more than 200 individuals in connection with an investigation into corruption that has cost more than USD $100 billion over the past several decades, Attorney General Sheikh Saud Al Mojeb said Thursday. Of these 208 individuals called in for questioning, seven have been released without charge. The governor of the Saudi [...]
Following an Associated Press (AP) article published Wednesday, Sri Lanka wrote Thursday in a letter to the New York Times that it will investigate allegations of torture and rape of 50 Tamil individuals by police offices and military officials. The AP report contains interviews and photographs with 20 Tamil men who claim they were raped, [...]
