The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill in a vote of 61-53 on Tuesday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The bill proposes a series of increases over the next five years to raise the wage from its current $8.25, which is more than the federally mandated $7.25. To help [...]
The UK Home Office wrongly denied residency to the Algerian husband of a dual British-Spanish citizen, according to the initial opinion of European Court of Justice Advocate General on Tuesday. The Home Office argued that when Perla Nerea García Ormazábal became a British citizen in 2009, her right to live with her family in any [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute , an Ohio voting case. The suit centers on Ohio’s voter registration list maintenance process, which sends confirmation notices to inactive voters and removes them after failure to confirm and failure to vote the following two general federal elections. The [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday to affirmed an order allowing a transgender male student to use the boy’s restroom. The Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin would not allow Ash Whitaker into the male restroom, claiming his presence would violate the privacy of other students. Whitaker brought claims alleging [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-0 to strike down the “provocation rule” created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which allows law enforcement officers to be held liable for an otherwise defensive use of deadly force if the officer provoked the violent encounter. Justice Samuel Alito , in writing [...]
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that restrictions placed on a patented product could not be enforced through an infringement suit because an authorized sale exhausts all rights under the Patent Act . In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. , the court found that although the Patent Act allows patentees to stop others [...]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a controversial NGO law that was approved by the Parliament in November. The law was published in the Official Gazette on Monday went into effect Tuesday. The legislation will create a new government agency, the National Authority for the Regulation of Non-Governmental Foreign Organizations, which will monitor all organizations [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) does not apply to out-of-state corporations. FELA holds railroads liable in money damages to their employees for injuries that occurred on the job. The case was filed in Montana state court, but the injuries did not [...]
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday appointed an Indian human rights lawyer and two fact-finding experts to investigate Myanmar security forces’ alleged crimes against Rohingya Muslims. Indira Jaising, an advocate of the Supreme Court of India , will be the lead investigator . The other two members are Sri Lankan lawyer Radhika Coomaraswamy and [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that in cases of statutory rape where sexual intercourse is criminalized based solely on the ages of the participants, the federal definition requires the age of the victim to be less than 16. In Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions the court’s definition of what age constitutes “sexual abuse of a minor” [...]
