The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a class-action lawsuit Monday regarding children’s education in relation to the Flint water crisis. The plaintiffs include 15 Flint families who allege that the Michigan Department of Education, Flint Community Schools and Genesee Intermediate School District failed to protect children’s guaranteed federal civil rights to education. The [...]
A lawsuit was filed against the Norwegian government on Tuesday over a decision to grant licenses for oil exploration in the Barents Sea. The plaintiffs, Nature and Youth and Greenpeace Nordic , argue that by allowing oil companies to drill in the Arctic, Norway is in violation of the Paris Agreement and article 112 of [...]
Several conservation groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accusing the agency of violating environmental law by neglecting the effects of unregulated immigration. The plaintiffs include public interest groups across the nation such as the Scientists and Environmentalists for Population Stabilization (SEPS) and the Floridians for a Sustainable [...]
A delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) traveled Sunday to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to initiate a five-day plan to discourage violent protests ignited by the nation’s postponed election. The DRC’s electoral commission announced earlier this month that the election would be moved from November to late 2018 to properly address [...]
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of the 2015 Guantanamo Diary memoir, was released from Guantanamo Bay on Monday after 14 years of imprisonment. He was transferred back to his native Mauritania, bringing Guantanamo Bay’s population down to 60 inmates. Slahi was never charged with an offense during his time in confinement. His handwritten memoir , accounting [...]
UK government lawyers argued in court on Monday that British Prime Minister Theresa May has the right to remove the UK from the EU. The case before the High Court of the UK centers on the the question of whether it is constitutional in the UK for the prime minister to invoke Article 50, which [...]
The Egyptian Parliament on Monday voted to enact new legislation aimed at combating the growing number of human traffickers along its coast. Smugglers and their middlemen will now face prison terms or fines , and the law also penalizes anyone who aides trafficked migrants during their journey. However, the law also provides health, legal and [...]
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari . The main issue in the case was whether a defendant’s counsel can present one mitigating factor at the sentencing phase, without thoroughly investigating the possibility of other mitigating factors. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented from the denial. Sotomayor argued that the court should [...]
Australia is using the island of Nauru as an “open-air prison,” putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. The report claims that Australia has ignored the 1951 Refugee Convention by subjecting attempted asylum seekers and [...]
Less than 24-hours after canceling a hearing on the vote-by-mail ballots, District Judge Mark Walker for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued an order requiring Florida to provide a method for voters to fix signature problems arising from vote-by-mail ballots. Walker was highly critical of the state’s opposition to allowing [...]
