The Court of Appeal for Ontario on Wednesday affirmed a ruling requiring a Vice Media reporter to turn over materials and communications used to write three stories regarding an accused terrorist in 2014. Ben Makuch communicated with and wrote three published stories regarding Farah Shirdon, who was believed to have moved to the Middle East [...]
The Scottish parliament on Thursday rescheduled a vote on a new independence referendum for next week following Wednesday’s terror attack at the United Kingdom parliament in London. The proposed referendum was under debate when the attack occurred, and Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh chose to halt the proceedings after receiving news of a “serious incident at [...]
Members of the US House Oversight Committee questioned FBI officials Wednesday on facial recognition technology during a hearing . The criticism was based on a report that 117 million Americans can be found on the governmental facial recognition database. Members expressed concern over how the technology would be implemented to affect American lives. Rep. Elijah [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana blocked a law Wednesday that would prevent foreign-born US citizens from marrying. The legislation at issue required a birth certificate to obtain a marriage license. The law had barred 32-year-old Viet Anh Vo from marrying his fiancee in 2016. Vo was thee [...]
A New York judge on Wednesday ordered ExxonMobil to cooperate with a New York investigation into whether the company misled others about the effects of climate change. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had issued previous subpoenas to both ExxonMobil and their outside auditing servicers, and a New York state court in October 2016 ordered [...]
The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) did not misidentify former JPMorgan official Achilles Macris in its penalty notice in connection with the “London Whale” Scandal. The FCA agreed that a conclusion that Macris was prejudiced would be justified if Macris was in fact identified in the warning and [...]
Kentucky’s HB 2 , which requires doctors to perform an ultrasound before an abortion, faced its first legal challenge in federal court Thursday. HB 2 requires doctors to perform an ultrasound and show their patients pictures, explaining the images in detail. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , argue that it [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein presented his report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, stating that much work remains to make Sri Lanka’s judiciary conform with international expectations. Furthermore, many expressed concerns about Sri Lanka’s anti-terrorism act, which grants extraordinary police powers leading to allegations [...]
Former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, was sentenced on Wednesday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to an additional year in prison and fined approximately $325,000 for interfering with his own trial in March of 2016. In 2016 Bemba was charged with bribing witnesses and falsifying evidence after [...]
The US Department of Justice petitioned Wednesday to have the travel ban executive order by President Donald Trump reviewed more quickly. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions commented on the proceedings earlier this month, saying “his executive order provides a needed pause, so we can carefully review how we scrutinize people coming here from these countries [...]
