The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on Monday began trial in Common Cause v. Rucho, a consolidated partisan gerrymandering case brought by Common Cause, the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, among others. The lawsuit challenges North Carolina’s newest map after the Supreme Court upheld a district court ruling [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling on Tuesday stating that “it was not unreasonable for the FCC to gather more information from relevant parties before deciding whether to compel broadcasters to translate emergency alerts and broadcast them in languages in addition to English.” The plaintiffs [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday accused Myanmar security forces of committing crimes against humanity in their expelling of the Rohingya Muslim population. The report, entitled “My World Is Finished”: Rohingya Targeted in Crimes against Humanity in Myanmar , gives first-hand accounts of survivors fleeing the alleged genocide . AI spoke with refugees, used satellite imagery [...]
Quebec’s National Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure to require those who wear face veils to remove them when using public services. The stated purpose of Bill 62 is to enforce compliance with the state’s religious neutrality. Given the State’s religious neutrality, the purpose of this Act is to establish measures to foster adherence to [...]
US veterans filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against five big pharmaceutical firms for funding terrorist organizations in Iraq. The suit was brought by more than 100 US veterans and their families for injuries sustained in combating terrorist forces in Iraq. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of [...]
Germany’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a petition to block the Bundesbank from participating in the European Central Bank plan to purchase bonds. The European Central Bank is currently purchasing 2.3 trillion euros ($2.7 trillion) worth of bonds in order to keep inflation rates at just under 2 percent. So far, the European Central Bank [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against international mining group Rio Tinto and two of its chief executives alleging fraud and deception in violation of federal law. The SEC’s allegations stem from Rio Tinto’s $3.7 billion acquisition of a coal mining company in Mozambique, led by defendants former Chief [...]
US District Judge William Alsup in California on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to turn over emails, letters, memoranda, notes, media items, opinions and other materials directly or indirectly considered in the final agency decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The plaintiffs successfully illustrated that defendants excluded highly relevant materials [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that Greek police cannot enforce a blanket height requirement for police recruits because such a policy discriminates against women. Prior to Wednesday’s ruling, Greece enforced a minimum height requirement of 1.7 meters (5 feet 7 inches) for entry into the police academy. In 2007, Marie-Eleni Kalliri, who [...]
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday vacated a $72 million award to a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) baby powder products containing talcum contributed to her ovarian cancer, finding that the court that awarded the amount had no jurisdiction. The court cited a Supreme Court case that “non-resident must [...]
