The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison. Park was removed from office in March 2017 by the country’s Constitutional Court . In an unprecedented gesture, the peninsular nation’s Supreme Court authorized live broadcasting of high-profile case sentencing proceedings, if doing so would serve [...]
China filed a complaint against the US with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday over US tariffs against Chinese goods. The complaint is a request for consultation , which is the first step in a dispute in the WTO. The US and China have 60 days to resolve the dispute. If an agreement can [...]
The Attorneys General from 14states, led by New York Attorney General Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court for the District of Columbia over the EPA’s failure to limit methane emissions from sources in the oil and gas sector. Schneiderman is joined by the Attorneys [...]
The Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts released a decision Wednesday, denying Equifax a motion to dismiss and allowing the commonwealth to move forward in its lawsuit against Equifax for its data breach . Equifax sought to dismiss the claims against them under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure for failure to [...]
Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Thursday ordered a retrial for 16 out of 43 defendants who were charged with receiving illegal foreign funds without a license “for restricted activities against state policy.” The defendants had received USD $60 million from organizations affiliated with democracy promotion such as the International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, Freedom [...]
Ammar al Baluchi , a forty-one-year old Pakistani national accused of helping to plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has filed a motion in military court requesting it to strike down the Defense Department‘s restrictions on his ability to create and distribute artwork. al Baluchi had been creating his artwork in his cell at Guantanamo and [...]
Lambda Legal announced on Wednesday that Puerto Rico will modify current policies to allow transgender people to change their gender on identification cards following a federal court order . In the order, the court stated that “the forced disclosure of plaintiffs’ transgender status violates their fundamental right to informational privacy.” Lambda Legal filed the case [...]
After late-night deliberations, the Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday allowed an arrest warrant for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to go forward . Lula was convicted in July of corruption and the ruling was upheld in March. The court of appeals also extended his jail sentence from 9 to 12 years. Normally [...]
Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain’s National Court on Wednesday charged the former Catalan chief of police, Josep Lluís Trapero, with sedition for his role in the 2017 independence referendum . The judge concluded that Trapero facilitated the execution of the referendum by instructing the force to disregard orders from the Spain’s national government to block [...]
A Pennsylvania appellate judge on Monday distinguished the natural gas extraction practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” from conventional drilling property rights and held that fracking is not subject to the same “rules of capture.” In a suit brought against Marcellus Shale gas producer Southwestern Energy alleging trespass and conversion for producing gas under [...]
