The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s policy of separating asylum-seeking immigrant parents from their children. The complaint was filed on the behalf of a mother and her seven-year-old daughter from the Democratic Republic of the [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday urged the five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council to end the “pernicious use” of the veto. At the thirty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council, Zeid asserted his convictions and claimed that the P5 is second only to criminals who [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that a federal law banning workplace discrimination based on sex extends to sexual orientation. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars workplace discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had argued on [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an expedited appeal of a ruling that blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from cancelling the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DOJ took the unusual step of appealing to the Supreme Court before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit weighed [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases for its next term on Monday. New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira challenges the applicability of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and presents two questions for the court to consider: whether a dispute over the applicability of the FAA’s Section 1 exemptions to the act should be [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Egyptian authorities of escalating arbitrary arrests against political opponents. According to HRW, the arrests, which took place in late January to February, are part of a government strategy to quell political protests ahead of the next presidential election to be held in late March. Accordingly, various human rights [...]
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on Saturday released a redacted version of the Democrat response to Devin Nunes’s memo countering GOP claims that the FBI overstepped their surveillance authority while investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Titled “Correcting the Record – The Russia Investigations,” the response criticized GOP allegations against [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: A UN committee found Friday that the UK is breaching the rights of women in Northern Ireland by restricting their access to abortions. Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ruled that defendants who are pregnant women, mothers with young children or people with disabilities, who are accused of [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Twenty-three state attorneys general, led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman , filed a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reversal of Obama administration net neutrality regulations. Net neutrality attempts [...]
Former Trump campaign official Richard Gates pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts: conspiracy against the US and making a false statement. The plea came as part of the case Special Counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing against Gates and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Part of the plea deal requires Gates to cooperate with [...]
