The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) on Wednesday filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the US Supreme Court asking for review of an appeals court ruling declaring the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) constitutional. The petition comes in response to a June ruling by the US Court of Appeals for [...]
A federal judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case challenging whether political speech from grassroots organizations can be regulated under campaign finance laws . Judge Robert Hinkle, who heard the arguments, partially denied a preliminary injunction in October to stop enforcement of the [...]
The United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday for the Motion Picture Association (MPAA) , requiring internet provider British Telecom (BT) to block access to a file-sharing website, Newzbin2 . Newzbin2 is an aggregator of content, but does not develop any illegal content itself, simply making the content more accessible. BT recently developed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Discount Tobacco City & Lottery v. USA on cross-appeals from a tobacco advertising decision in January 2010. The January ruling upheld the majority of restrictions on cigarette advertising imposed by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) , [...]
The Italian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday rejected by a vote of 293 to 250 legislation that would have provided greater penalties for hate crimes committed against homosexuals and transsexuals. The legislation was rejected on the grounds that it violated the concept of equality in Article 3 of the Italian Constitution by providing differential treatment [...]
The government of Niger announced on Wednesday that it has established a new agency tasked with combating corruption. The High Authority to Combat Corruption will be comprised of government administration and private sector representatives who will monitor corruption levels, conduct studies and investigations into corrupt behavior and implement measures aiming to deter corruption. The government [...]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said Wednesday that all those responsible for war crimes during the country’s post-election violence will be prosecuted and brought to justice regardless of their side. Ouattara said that even his loyalists responsible for the violence will be brought to justice. However, Ouattara said that due to the state of the [...]
A court in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia on Wednesday denied parole for former Yukos oil executive Platon Lebedev . Lebedev and his former business partner Mikhail Khodorkovsky were convicted in December and sentenced in the Khamovinchesky District Court on charges connected with embezzling more than $27 billion from Yukos oil. Lebedev’s lawyer indicated he [...]
A group of immigrants in Alabama filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Montgomery County Circuit Court to challenge the controversial Alabama immigration law as in violation of the state constitution. HB 56, signed into law last month , expands restrictions on undocumented immigrants by allowing law enforcement to detain individuals under “reasonable suspicion” they are [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to arrest suspected war criminal Bosco Ntaganda , a Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes. At a conference at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, advocates called for Ntaganda’s arrest prior to the DRC presidential [...]
