Four transgender people filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Thursday against the Ohio Department of Health and Office of Vital Statistics due to the plaintiffs’ inability to change their birth certificates to match their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed through the American Civil Liberties Union of [...]
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must stand for trial for charges of corruption and influence the 2007 French presidential election. The case will focus on alleged phone calls that transpired between Sarkozy and a French judge who was, at the time, investigating claims that Sarkozy’s 2007 election was illegally funded. In the phone calls, Sarkozy [...]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed US Attorney for Utah John Huber on Thursday to investigate determinations made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2016 and 2017. The investigation will look into the DOJ’s “compliance with certain legal requirements and Department and FBI policies and procedures with respect to certain applications filed with the [...]
The International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM), a UN quasi-prosecutorial body, issued a report last week stating that they have compiled an “overwhelming volume of … videos and [...]
The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland against the US Census Bureau and President Donald Trump, arguing that the federal government’s unpreparedness for the 2020 Census is a violation of the Constitution. According to the complaint, the Bureau faces insufficient staffing, funding and preparation, including the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday denied Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit for involvement in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Victims and families of victims originally brought suit against Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission for Relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected a claim by a number of Philadelphia taxi companies and the Philadelphia Taxi Association that Uber Technologies was violating antitrust laws. The companies were accusing Uber of trying to monopolize the taxi market in the area and hurting their business as well. They [...]
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Governor Scott Walker‘s attempt to delay special elections for two vacant seats in the state’s legislature . Walker had appealed after a county court ruled that he must allow the seats to be filled . The decision comes one day before the court’s deadline to call the [...]
A federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on Wednesday partially granted President Donald Trump’s motions to dismiss an emoluments challenge , allowing the remainder of the claims to proceed. The District of Columbia and Maryland brought suit in June 2017 alleging that the President is in violation of [...]
The Maryland Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit licensed mental health professionals from offering conversion therapy to minors. The bill passed 34-12 , with 1 senator not voting. Conversion therapy, as defined in the bill, “means a practice or treatment by a mental health or child care practitioner that seeks to change [...]
