London’s High Court of Justice ruled Monday that the UK can continue to export arms to Saudi Arabia. The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) brought the suit on the grounds that the weapons have been used to violate International Humanitarian rights laws. For the last two years, Saudi Arabia has been waging attacks on Yemen [...]
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has published a decision that Philip Morris must pay substantial legal fees to the Australian government for a failed suit the tobacco company brought concerning cigarette packaging laws. In 2011 Australia, the UK and other countries replaced logos and distinctive coloring on cigarette packages with graphic health warnings. After a [...]
Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo López was released from a military prison Saturday on house arrest after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered his release due to health concerns. López has been detained by the government since early 2014 on a 13-year sentence after being charged with inciting anti-government protests. Venezuela has [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday extended his ruling that Iraqi nationals with orders to leave the US cannot be deported for another two weeks. The order temporarily blocks the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals until July 24. The American Civil Liberties Union, representing [...]
A wounded officer in a Baton Rouge shooting last year filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana Friday alleging that Black Lives Matter and five of its leaders were responsible for inciting violence that led to the attack. The complaint lists a long timeline of events across the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday dismissed Hawaii’s appeal to challenge the rules of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The three-judge panel decided that the court did not have jurisdiction, clarifying that the question should be posed to the US Supreme Court. Hawaii was lodging an attempt to allow grandparents [...]
The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale issued a joint statement on Friday apologizing to former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr for violating his rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) . Freeland and Goodale’s statement read: Today, we are announcing that [...]
UN member states voted 122-1 Friday to adopt the first ever multilateral legally binding treaty on nuclear disarmaments. The one vote against the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came from the Netherlands, while Singapore was absent at the conference. Among other things, the treaty prohibits 1) the developing, testing, production, [...]
The US Supreme Court issued an order Friday allowing enforcement of Wisconsin’s fetal protection law. The law gives courts jurisdiction over an “unborn child” and “expectant mother” when the mother “habitually lacks self-control” in the use of alcohol and drugs “to a severe degree,” creating a substantial risk to the health of the child. The [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Friday that citizens have a First Amendment right to record police performing their duties. The court found that officers, “are public officials carrying out public functions, and the First Amendment requires them to bear bystanders recording their actions. This is vital to promote the access [...]
