The US Supreme Court on Monday held in Davila v. Davis that the procedural default of ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel claims are not excused by the ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel. Petitioner Erik Davila confessed to accidentally killing a woman and her five-year-old granddaughter, as well as wounding several others, while he was attempting to shoot the woman’s [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case concerning a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers . The court also denied review of an important Second Amendment gun rights [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. Anz Securities, Inc., et al. that a member of a class action suit cannot file a new suit separately past the statute of repose . Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in the 5-4 decision. Kennedy did not buy [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources policy of excluding religious organizations from receiving grants violates the First Amendment. The Department offers grants to public and private schools and daycares to resurface playgrounds with material made from recycled tires. [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Trump administration’s travel ban, partially lifting the temporary injunction that had blocked the ban’s enforcement. The administration sought review of decisions issued by the US Courts of Appeal for the Fourth and Ninth Circuits last month. The Supreme Court’s order permits execution of the travel [...]
Cambodia’s former head of state on Friday rejected charges of crimes against humanity in his UN-assisted tribunal. The 85-year-old Khieu Samphan, who was head of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, said the allegations were concocted by neighboring country Vietnam. Samphan denied knowing about the forced marriages, executions, and starvations that occurred during the regime [...]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday rejected calls to cease Turkish military presence and close its military base in Qatar. He
The US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss a class-action suit filed against President Donald Trump and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) . The suit was filed against the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP) and claims [...]
The lower house of the German Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to compensate thousands of individuals who had been persecuted and imprisoned for their sexuality. The law under which the individuals had been convicted is paragraph 175 of Germany’s criminal code, and was put in place in 1871. The scope of the law was [...]
Amnesty International UK (AI) on Friday called for improved police training and a review of the legal framework as they relate to hate crimes in the UK. In a news briefing tilted “Against Hate: Tackling hate crime in the UK” , AI highlights a 42 per cent rise in hate crime in the two weeks [...]
