A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is now unconstitutional after the passing of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 removed the tax penalty [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday held 5-3 that Chapter 12 of Title 8 of the US Code does not afford detained immigrants, including permanent residents, “the right to periodic bond hearings” and that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit misapplied the canon of constitutional avoidance in imposing an implicit six-month time [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Monday banned the Trump administration from revoking an Obama-era deportation protections program for immigrants that were brought to the country illegally as children. This ruling follows a lawsuit that was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of [...]
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled Tuesday that cities have the right to restrict the use of some diesel vehicles based on emissions. The ruling comes from decisions in two separate cases where Environmental Action Germany (DUH) originally brought suit in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, accusing cities of failing to address issues of air pollution. [...]
A plurality of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday held that Congress possesses the legislative powers to retroactively immunize the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) from suit for taking property into trust for the benefit of Native American tribes. The case arose when the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (the Gun Lake Tribe) of Michigan, [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Schedule I classification for marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act . Judge Alvin Hellerstein granted the government’s motion to dismiss because the plaintiffs failed to exhaust all administrative remedies prior to initiating the lawsuit. [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interpretation of the permit requirement codified in the Clean Water Act (CWA) The question for the court in Riverkeeper v. Environmental Protection Agency was whether the CWA requires dischargers to have a permit for every water transfer, pursuant [...]
The Communist Party of China (CCP) Central Committee on Sunday announced plans to abolish the presidential term limits, which would permit President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. The CCP proposed removing Article 79 from China’s constitution , which states “he term of office of the President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of [...]
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Monday that detaining migrants and asylum-seekers violated international law unless it is done as a last resort. In the Revised Deliberation Number 5 released at the beginning of February, the organization said, “The irregular entry and stay in a country by migrants should not be treated as [...]
The US Supreme Court heard two oral arguments on Monday. Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31s concerns whether mandatory agency fees violate the First Amendment. The petitioners argued that previous cases that failed to apply heightened scrutiny to this issue should be overruled. The respondents argued that agency fees [...]
