The Baltimore City Council voted 11-3 Monday to approve a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. Maryland’s current minimum wage is $8.75 and is slated to increase to $10.10 by 2018. The proposed bill would increase Baltimore’s minimum wage with Maryland’s until 2018 then continue to rise to [...]
More than 850 family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . The suit alleges that Saudi Arabia provided support to al Qaeda in multiple ways. First, it alleges that Saudi Arabian charities ran terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, working hand in hand with Osama [...]
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed a bill into law on Monday aimed at protecting student organizations’ rights to manage internal affairs in a manner that is consistent with the group’s religious or political beliefs. The law passed through the House and Senate nearly unopposed, with only three senators and eight House members voting against the [...]
Sleight of Hand in Florida’s New Death Penalty: Requiring, But Not Requiring, Jury Unanimity JURIST Guest Columnist Chance Meyer of Shepard Broad College of Law,NOVA Southeastern University, discusses the Florida Supreme Court’s recent death penalty decision in Hurst and its implications … Dai Vernon knew how to spot a cardsharp. He searched the country for [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Murr v. Wisconsin and Howell v. Howell . In Murr v. Wisconsin , the court heard arguments regarding whether “parcel as a whole” in a regulatory taking case establishes that two legally distinct contiguous parcels must be combined for takings purposes. Petitioner in this case [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Monday for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch . Each of the 20 senators on the committee, as well as Gorsuch himself, began the hearing by providing opening statements. Democrat members appeared to focus on a case where Gorsuch sided against a driver who was fired for leaving behind [...]
Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain signed into law the Hindu Marriage Bill 2017 on Sunday, allowing Pakistan’s Hindus to regulate their own marriages. Hindus will be able to perform legal marriages in accordance with their religious customs. According to the law, marriages officiated before the passage of the law will be automatically legitimized. According to Pakistan [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began hearing an appeal by Jadranko Prlic, Prime Minister of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, and five of his former senior military officials. The six were sentenced in May 2013 for crimes against humanity, violations of the [...]
Seven army officials have been arrested and charged with war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , according to government officials at a press conference on Saturday. The charges stem from a massacre of unarmed civilians in the Kasaï-Central Province in February that was recorded and widely shared on social media. Congolese military [...]
Judge Derrick Watson of the US District Court for the District of Hawaii stood by his ruling against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban and denied a motion on Sunday from the Trump administration to narrow his ruling. Watson’s Wednesday ruling ordered a stop on Trump’s revised ban. Watson denied the motion on Sunday, explaining [...]
