The Constitutional Court of Romania declined on Thursday to rule on a controversial decree decriminalizing certain corruption offenses. The decree was introduced by the government last week and then referred to the court for review, but the ruling Social Democrats withdrew the decree two days after the referral due to massive protests. The court has [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court decision blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration. In a per curiam decision, the three-judge panel held, “that the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure [...]
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Thursday filed a legal challenge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) . On Wednesday, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officially granted an easement to the DAPL developer . The Cheyenne [...]
A three-judge panel in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that limits a law stripping the state’s new governor, Roy Cooper , of some of his powers. The law required Senate approval for the Governor’s Cabinet nominees, a measure never required before. Cooper and his fellow Democrats have been critical of the measure [...]
The Texas Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would effectively ban so-called sanctuary cities, requiring cities to be in compliance with federal immigration law. SB 4 would require law enforcement in cities and on college campuses to hold an arrested person in custody until immigration officials look into their immigration status. It would also [...]
The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world’s largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its inhabitants back to war-torn Somalia . The judge who halted the order said the government failed to [...]
The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would allow execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas or electrocution if the current method of execution, lethal injection, is deemed unconstitutional by a court. The legislation outlines a process wherein nitrogen gas is the first alternative, followed by the firing squad, then electrocution. Various cases [...]
African nations should not abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC) , UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng urged in an editorial Monday. Dieng, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, wrote in response to three African nations, Burundi, South Africa and The Gambia, after they announced intentions to withdraw from the court. These countries [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the US Chamber of Commerce to a rule governing retirement investment advice. The regulation requires professionals who occasionally give financial advice to be treated as fiduciaries under the revised definitions of the Employee Retirement Income Security [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday issued an order to enjoin the proposed merger of health insurance giant Anthem and Cigna . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to halt the merger in July on the grounds that the acquisition of Cigna would “substantially lessen” the [...]
