The Pakistan Supreme Court rejected calls on Thursday to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office stating that there was insufficient evidence concerning the corruption allegations against Sharif and his family to constitutionally compel his removal from office. The court presented a 549-page split judgment with two of the five justices dissenting. The dissenting justices [...]
On Wednesday law firm Hagens Berman filed a class action lawsuit in California’s Northern District Court against car company Tesla over the self driving function in their vehicles. The lawsuit alleges that the autopilot function is “essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous” and places the car users at risk. The new hardware system, AutoPilot2, is alleged [...]
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Thursday that the Turkish Constitutional Court would reject any opposition challenge to a referendum that expanded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had no jurisdiction on the matter. The referendum was approved on Sunday after a 51 percent victory in favor [...]
The Uruguayan House of Senators approved a bill on Tuesday that would make femicide an explicit criminal offense of its own. The legislation is being passed to the House of Representatives for further approval. The bill would codify femicide as a very special aggravating circumstance to homicide, which could increase the sentence imposed upon a [...]
Amnesty International (AI) called for police restraint on Wednesday to protect protesters’ rights in Venezuela. Protests continue in the country against President Nicolas Maduro , and hundreds of thousands of people held rival protests on Wednesday amid rising political tensions in the country. It was reported that Venezuelan police fired tear gas at the anti-government [...]
Advocacy groups from around the world signed a joint statement on Thursday that called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. The release of the petition aligned with the third anniversary of U Win Tin’s death, a political prisoner in Myanmar for close to 20 years. The 22 rights groups that signed the [...]
The International Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected Ukraine’s request for measures to prevent rebels in the country from receiving supplies over its Russian boarder. The court granted measures designed to protect ethnic discrimination in the disputed Crimean peninsula, currently under Russian rule, but did not grant Ukraine’s request to prevent the funding of terrorism [...]
Eugene Owusu , the top United Nations humanitarian official in South Sudan on Wednesday warned that without peace in South Sudan humanitarian conditions will continue to deteriorate. Speaking to reporters, Owusu urged that women in Sudan face a daily risk of sexual assault and rape. Owusu also warned of famine, homelessness and violence. He stated, [...]
The Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the September 2016 Court of the Judiciary decision to suspend Chief Justice Roy Moore for violation of the Canons of Judicial Ethics by issuing orders contradicting the US Supreme Court’s recognition of same-sex marriage. In January, 2015, federal judge Callie Garande issued an order ruling that Alabama’s statutory [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Weaver v. Massachusetts and Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer . In Weaver v. Massachusetts , the court considered arguments on whether a defendant who is claiming ineffective assistance of counsel due to a structural error must show the they were prejudiced by [...]
