The Illinois Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Act was ruled constitutional on Wednesday in a Federal District Court in Chicago. The law limits how much political action committees (PACs) can contribute to candidates, but permits political parties to contribute as much as they want to campaigns. The law was challenged on First [...]

The Palestinian High Court of Justice in Ramallah ordered the suspension of local elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The first presidential election to take place in a decade was scheduled for October 8. The court suspended the election due to the ongoing dispute between rival groups Fatah and Hamas [...]

A judge for the Connecticut Superior Court Wednesday ordered school officials to overhaul the state’s educational funding system, finding that the current system is unconstitutional. In his opinion, Judge Thomas Moukawsher noted that poorer areas grossly under-performed in comparison with wealthier areas. The judge ordered the state to draft and submit proposals within six months, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Uber drivers may not join in a class action suit to pursue employment claims against the transportation company but must resolve their disputes individually. The claims included a host of employment contract issues as well as allegations that the company responsible for conducting [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Nepal of not doing all it could to prevent child marriages as a report detailed at least 37 percent of girls are still being married before age 18. Nepal is considered to have the third highest child marriage rate in Asia with some girls under the age of [...]

A former Guantanamo detainee who was resettled in Uruguay was hospitalized and released on Tuesday after his engagement in a hunger strike left him weak. Following his release from the hospital, Abu Wa’el Dhiab resumed his hunger strike , vowing that he will continue until he is either reunited with his family or dead. Dhiab [...]

President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Wednesday refused to address the EU’s recent findings regarding an anomaly in last week’s presidential election. Following his loss to Bongo in the poll results, opposing candidate Jean Ping questioned the results from Bongo’s home province, Haut-Ogooue, where the voter turnout was 99.93 percent and Bongo received 95 percent of [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday partially granted a tribe’s request to suspend the construction of a North Dakota crude oil pipeline running north of the tribe’s land. In July the Standing Rock Sioux tribe challenged the construction in court, arguing that the pipeline would be built [...]

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Alabama, alleging that the at-large election format for state appellate judges and justices is racially discriminatory . The lawsuit, filed on behalf of four African American voters and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, is seeking the elimination [...]

Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said Wednesday that Austria will take Hungary to the International Court of Justice if Hungary does not begin accepting returning migrants that crossed into Austria from Hungary. According to EU law, migrants are supposed to remain in the first country they enter, but Austria claims Hungary has been breaking this [...]