The US Congress on Wednesday sent a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to President Barrack Obama . The repeal bill is one of the first pieces of legislation against the ACA to reach Obama’s desk in the past five years. The bill was passed by the US House of Representatives with the [...]
A Ukrainian official said Tuesday that the nation plans to sue Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on claims of financing terrorism. The claims surround the Russian annexation of Donbas and Crimea. Pavlo Petrenko, the Justice Minister for the Ukraine , told press that the pretrial procedure has already commenced . This suit [...]
The Supreme Court of India upheld a temporary ban on diesel vehicles in New Delhi on Tuesday in an effort to reduce air pollution. Diesel vehicles will be forced to take alternative routes rather than simply traveling through the city. The ban will likely impact automakers such as Mercedes Benz and and Toyota Motor Corp, [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday in favor of a man convicted of jaywalking during a 2012 protest in Moscow. Yevgeniy Frumkin was attending a demonstration in Bolotnaya Square to challenge the reelection of Vladimir Putin to his third term as president. When the anticipated route for the march was curtailed by [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday said that the Thai government should fully investigate the whereabouts of at least 82 people listed as disappeared, and criminalize forced disappearance through legislation. Included on the list of disappeared is lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, who went missing nearly 12 years ago. Witnesses at [...]
A sharia high court in Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced cleric Abdulaziz Dauda and nine others to death by hanging for committing blasphemy against the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The prosecution claimed that Duada, a preacher also known as Abdul Inyass, stated that the Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse, the founder of a rival sect, enjoyed a larger following [...]
The Obama administration on Monday called on the US Supreme to strike down a recently passed Texas abortion law which the administration argues will harm women’s health. According to US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli , the law would continue to close many of the state’s clinics. Verrilli further stated that the challenged requirements “do not [...]
A court in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, on Wednesday agreed to hear China’s first legal challenge over a refusal to issue same-sex marriage applications. A 26-year-old man filed a case against a civil affairs bureau for refusing to grant a marriage application to him and his same-sex partner. China legalized homosexuality in 1997, [...]
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state legislature does have the power to use advisory ballot measures. The decision will allow lawmakers to place a nonbinding question on ballots to ask voters whether they feel there should be a new amendment to the US Constitution to overturn the 2010 US Supreme Court decision [...]
The high court of Bangladesh on Monday upheld the death sentence of Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes committed in the country’s war for independence against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami’s conviction was upheld on charges of genocide, murder, torture, and rape. A war crimes tribunal, established in 2010, convicted Nizami of the aforementioned charges in [...]
