The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc. that the Corps’ determination that a property contains waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) constitutes a “final agency action” reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act . Respondents are engaged in peat mining in Minnesota and applied [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed confidence on Monday that former first lady Simone Gbagbo’s upcoming trial in Ivory Coast for crimes against humanity could be a “pivotal moment for justice.” HRW also warned that if the trial is to be meaningful to victims, it must be credible, fair and followed by trials of other high-level [...]
A court in Senegal convicted former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré of crimes against humanity committed during his rule from 1982 to 1990 and sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday. He was found guilty of sex slavery, rape and the ordered killings of an estimated 40,000 people. Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody, who initiated the [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of California ordered Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday to release internal documents pertaining to Trump University, the terminated education program that is currently the focus of two class action lawsuits. The suits were brought by two San Diego students who accused Trump University of making [...]
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday expressed concern over the poor living conditions of several refugee camps located in northern Greece. Refugees were recently transferred to the sites of concern after being properly evacuated from the makeshift camp at Idomeni, located on the Greek border. While it was agreed that evacuation was a necessary [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday concluded that enforcement officials acted in good faith when they retained and searched copies of electronic files seized during a separate investigation that took place years before. In U.S. v. Ganias, Stavros Ganias argued against his 2011 tax-evasion conviction asserting that the Fourth Amendment’s [...]
The national Israeli Police on Sunday recommended that Sara Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, be indicted for improper behavior and misuse of state funds. The allegations include breach of trust, falsifying documents and receiving goods under false pretenses. Law enforcement officials asserted that they have found enough evidence to indict the following: Sara Netanyahu, [...]
A Mexican judge granted a temporary suspension on the extradition of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán to the US on Saturday. The decision comes after Guzmán’s lawyers filed an appeal arguing that extradition to the US would be unconstitutional. The Mexican foreign ministry had approved the extradition of Guzmán so that he could be tried in [...]
Argentina’s last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, and other former military officers were sentenced to prison on Friday for their roles in Operation Condor in the 1970s. The criminal court in Buenos Aires, composed of judges Adrián Grünberg, Óscar Amirante, Pablo Laufer and Ricardo Ángel Basílico, handed Bignone a 20-year prison sentence on top of his previous [...]
California Governor Edmund G. Brown signed Senate Bill 1408 into law on Friday, allowing HIV-positive individuals to become transplant donors to HIV-positive recipients. The California Legislature passed the bill earlier that day. Brown and the state’s congress moved quickly to pass the emergency measure in order to permit an HIV-positive man to donate part of [...]
