Twenty-one humanitarian organizations issued a joint statement on Tuesday condemning the Greek government’s decision to reinstate a migrant “containment” policy after it was struck down by the nation’s highest administrative court. Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Human Rights Watch were among the groups that called the action a challenge to the rule of law in Greece. [...]
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday dismissed a complaint challenging that state’s limits on charter schools. Massachusetts’ charter school law sets a limit on the total number of charter schools operating in the state and a limit on local school district funds that may be diverted to charter schools in a given area. Several [...]
The UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the African Union agreed on Tuesday to cooperate on numerous human rights goals in an effort “to explore and develop joint approaches to preventing and addressing human rights abuses and violations.” The AU and OHCHR plan to “actively involve and coordinate their human [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children from deportation and provides them with renewable work permits. Judge John D. Bates found that the Department [...]
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) heard oral arguments on Monday and Tuesday in former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal of his 2016 conviction for crimes committed during the Bosnia conflict. Karardic, in support of his appeal , argues that prosecutors and judges committed numerous legal and procedural errors , such as prohibiting [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two matters Tuesday: Abbott v. Perez and Animal Science Products v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. . Abbott is two consolidated cases that concern allegations that Texas lawmakers drew the state’s federal congressional and state legislative districts in such a way as to harm the rights of the [...]
A Belgian court on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, to 20 years in prison for attempted murder of three police officers during a 2016 shootout. After the Paris attacks, Salah had fled to Brussels where he was later captured in a shootout. One of his accomplices was [...]
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday vacated a decision by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to delay increases of fines paid by automakers under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. Under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act , the penalties paid by car and truck manufacturers for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Tuesday in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC that inter partes review, which authorizes the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to reconsider and cancel an already-issued patent claim, under 35 USC §§ 311-319, does not violate Article III or the Seventh Amendment of the [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC that foreign corporations cannot be used in the US under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) . The plaintiffs in the case are victims of terrorist attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. They allege that the bank and its offices in [...]
