DeJenay Beckwith, a woman who was sexually assault in 2011, has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas against the city of Houston for the city’s backlog of rape kit tests. Beckwith was sexually assaulted in her home in 2011. Immediately after the assailant was chased away by [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in 11 cases on Thursday. Dalmazzi v. United States Cox v. United States , and Ortiz v. United States are three cases that will be consolidated and will be given one hour each for oral argument. These cases deal with whether active-duty military officers can serve on the Court [...]
China on Thursday announced that it would be implementing the UN sanctions on North Korean companies by ordering them to close in China by January. China’s commerce ministry also announced that this would include any joint ventures with Chinese firms, but they must end before the January deadline, precisely 120 days from September 11. This [...]
The Western Cape High Court in South Africa on Wednesday ruled that parliament must amend the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to compel political parties in South Africa to disclose the sources of their private funding. The plaintiff in this case was a nonprofit organization named My Vote Counts (MVC) that sought a [...]
Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment John Knox called on Mongolia Wednesday to protect the environment. The call came as a result of economic and cultural implications the nations agricultural community is facing as a result of expanding the expanding mining industry. Knox found that while Mongolia has comprehensive environmental legislation, it lacks [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (ACLU-CO) filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging unlawful racial profiling. In the complaint , the ACLU alleges officers from the Aurora police department prevented Omar Hassan, a black Ethiopian man, from dining at a Caribou Coffee in March 2016. The complaint alleges the officers racially profiled Hassan due to [...]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday waived the Jones Act , a near-century-old law, easing shipping restrictions for hurricane relief to be sent to Puerto Rico. The waiver was announced by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a tweet, which said: “At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto [...]
A widespread investigation into a corruption scheme between coaches at NCAA Division-1 basketball programs, an international apparel company, and financial advisors led to the arrest of 10 men on Tuesday, according to an announcement by an acting US Attorney and an FBI assistant director. According to the criminal complaints the scheme involved coaches accepting cash [...]
A group of 25 refugees left a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday to travel to the US for resettlement, becoming the first of several hundred such refugees who will make the journey as part of an agreement between former US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull [...]
Thailand’s Supreme Court unaminously convicted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia on Wednesday, sentencing her to five years in prison for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme resulting in billions lost. According to the Court, “The accused knew that the government-to-government rice contract was unlawful but did not prevent it. Which is a manner of [...]
