Two federal regulators on Friday announced a $1 billion settlement with Wells Fargo after finding that the the bank violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) found that Wells Fargo unfairly failed to follow the mortgage-interest-rate-lock process it explained to some [...]
A federal judge on Thursday enjoined the US government from sending a US citizen who has been detained in Iraq for almost a year to another country. This order follows the American Civil Liberty Union’s request to temporarily block the detainee’s transference until the US government could produce legal authority that supported moving him to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday ruled that Indiana’s recent abortion law, House Enrolled Act No. 1337 , is unconstitutional . The law was enacted on March 24, 2016, and was challenged in court by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky . The law prevents women from having an abortion [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday held that a law preventing the stocking up of alcohol from another province is constitutionally valid. The case involved Section 134(b) of the New Brunswick’s Liquor Control Act, which forbids residents from possessing large amounts of alcohol not purchased from the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation—i.e. purchased from other [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s attempt to punish so-called “sanctuary cities.” The lawsuit was filed by the city of Chicago after the Department of Justice (DOJ) placed conditions on the receipt of funds from the Edward Byrne [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Wednesday that an Ohio law banning the state’s Department of Health from funding any entity or its affiliate performing or promoting non-therapeutic abortions through grants received from six non-abortion-related federal health programs is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs in the case, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and [...]
The Supreme Court of Maine on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved measure to implement ranked choice voting . Last summer, the Maine Supreme Court partially struck down 2016 legislation that enacted ranked choice voting for the state. The legislature then approved a new law that applies the ranked choice voting for 2021. The ranked candidate voting [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday that grants 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The governor issued the order by invoking Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the State of New York authorizing the governor to grant pardons. The current order allows paroled felons to be considered for [...]
The Fourth Federal Regional Court in Brazil on Wednesday denied another appeal from former president Lula da Silva . Lula was jailed earlier this month after losing an appeal to the Supreme Court of Brazil. This failed appeal is year another setback for Lula and his supporters who hope to see him run for president [...]
The state of Kentucky on Wednesday sued several opioid manufacturers alleging that they “trivialized, mischaracterized, and failed to disclose” the “serious risk of addiction” inherent in the use of the high strength pain killers. The state claims that including Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals “undermined evidence that opioids are addictive by suggesting [...]
