The Maebashi District Court ruled that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) are liable for professional negligence in their security maintenance at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The two parties have been ordered to pay a total of USD $341,000 to 62 out of 137 evacuees who sought damages for emotional distress. The [...]
The Seoul Central District Court said on Friday that it has reassigned the bribery case of Samsung Group‘s would-be chief Jae-yong Lee to a new judge, after reports surfaced on Thursday concerning the previous judge’s connection to a woman Lee is accused of bribing. The father-in-law of Young-hoon Lee, the judge who presided over the [...]
In an open letter issued Thursday, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to stop following undocumented immigrants to courthouses in order to make arrests. In her letter, addressed to Attorney General Jefferson Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly , Cantil-Sakauye stressed what she believes to be the [...]
Orlando, Florida, Chief Prosecutor Aramis Ayala, announced on Thursday that her office will no longer seek the death penalty in Osceola and Orange counties, prompting Florida Governor Rick Scott to issue an executive order removing her from a case involving the killing of Orlando police lieutenant Debra Clayton. Ayala cited various factors that weighed in [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday rejected a settlement in a class action lawsuit between non-Gmail users and Google. The non-Gmail users contended that Google illegally scanned their e-mail correspondence with Gmail users for targeted advertising purposes in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act [...]
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the detainment of a Volkwagen AG (VW) executive charged in the company’s emissions scandal. Judge Sean Cox of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that Oliver Schmidt should be held until his trial next year as he represented a flight risk. Schmidt is a [...]
The House Budget Committee on Thursdayapproved a proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The 19-17 vote, which received opposition from both parties, sends the American Health Care Act to the House Rules Committee. The proposal is the first step in a promise made by many Republican congressman who promised to repeal [...]
The Israel High Court of Justice recognized on Wednesday the ties of several Jerusalem-born Palestinians, calling them “native-born residents.” The judges ordered Israel to restore the residency of a Jerusalem-born Palestinian who came to the US in his youth but has since returned to Jerusalem. This is the first ruling of its kind for Jerusalem-born [...]
UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism Ikponwosa Ero on Thursday called on Malawi to take action to protect people with albinism from attacks. Recently there have been several attacks this year in the small country on people with albinism. Some attacks have been based in the mistaken belief [...]
Privacy International , a rights group devoted to promoting and protecting the privacy rights of individuals worldwide released a report on Wednesday documenting serious human rights abuses such as torture, extrajudicial killings and disappearances that have allegedly resulting from the surveillance techniques and practices of Kenya’s police and intelligence agencies. The report alleges that the [...]
