Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, on Friday, announced that the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris on November 30th must serve as the turning point for climate law throughout the world. The conference will take place in Le Bourget in Paris. Of the countries attending the conference, Pasztor [...]
Narcotics detective Damacio Diaz of the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) in California was arrested on Friday on charges of bribery, drug trafficking, obstruction and filing false tax returns. The 16-count indictment, announced by US Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner in charge of the investigation, claims that Diaz, “in exchange for bribes from the dealer, provided the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday heard oral argument in a challenge to a Federal judge’s authority to issue a ruling that struck down modifications to firearm possession laws in the District of Columbia. The attorney representing the District of Columbia argued that Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr.’s [...]
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN General Assembly on Friday and cautioned the international community to avoid discrimination against Muslims, especially refugees and migrants entering Europe, as a result of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris a week earlier. Ki-moon stated that 60 million people have been forced from their homes because [...]
The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a new resolution calling on all member states to fight to eradicate the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) . Introduced by France in the wake of ISIL attacks that claimed 129 lives French lives, the resolution asks states to do what they can [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that the constitution does not require the Alberta legislature to enact laws in both French and English. French speakers, Gilles Caron and Pierre Boutet, challenged traffic tickets they were issued in 2003 because the laws and citations were only written in English, which violated their right to [...]
Lawyers for the Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the president’s changes to US immigration policy. Earlier this month the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a federal judge’s injunction against the president’s plan. Obama announced execution action on immigration last year that would allow 4.7 million [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government of Bangladesh Friday to stop the execution of two convicted war criminals whom they claim were not afforded a fair trial. On Wednesday the Bangladesh Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, members of opposition political parties convicted by [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that a Saudi Arabia court has sentenced Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy or abandoning his Muslim faith. The organization’s researcher in the Middle East, Adam Coogle, said that he had seen the trial documents and confirmed the death sentence. According to Coogle, Fayadh’s original sentence was [...]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state law that bars an individual front bringing a “wrongful birth” lawsuit. With all justices joining the majority opinion, the court dismissed Rebecca and Lawerence Sernovitz’s claim. The couple challenged Act 47 after they claimed that medical misinformation provided by their doctor prevented them from seeking an [...]
