The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn’t get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. A new law took effect in Iceland Monday, making it the first country to require equal pay for women. A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for [...]
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Thursday announced plans to make much of the US coast available for potential offshore drilling. Zinke unveiled a 380-page Draft Proposed Program (DPP) that includes 47 potential leases in 25 of the 26 planning areas. According to Zinke: Today’s announcement lays out the options that are on [...]
The Oslo District Court ruled Thursday that the government may allow Arctic drilling. The ruling was a defeat for environmental groups Nature and Youth and Greenpeace Nordic , which had argued that allowing the drilling would violate the country’s obligations under the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the Norwegian Constitution . The [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday urged Iranian authorities to investigate all deaths and injuries stemming from the recent protests. The mass protests began in late December in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city. Originally, protests were rallying against economic policies, but as the protests have spread throughout the country, [...]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that previous policies of non-interference with states that have legalized marijuana are “unnecessary” and called on US attorneys to enforce the Controlled Substances Act. Sessions has indicated that US attorneys should begin prosecution of those who cultivate, distribute or possess marijuana, launder money, or in any other way [...]
Lawyers for US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a cease and desist letter seeking to prevent publication of a forthcoming book critical of his campaign and first year in office. The letter alleges that author Michael Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt & Co. , have exposed themselves to civil liability for “defamation by [...]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked the May executive order that created the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” This order terminates the Trump administration’s investigation into alleged voter fraud during the 2016 election. The administration cited the fact that “many states have refused to provide … basic information relevant to its inquiry.” The [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint on Wednesday alleging that the Department of Justice (DOJ) violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in failing to respond to their expedited request seeking communications concerning the DOJ’s decision to release private text messages sent during the 2016 presidential campaign by two former [...]
Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign official who has been indicted for money laundering and making false statements, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller . The suit, filed under the Administrative Procedure Act , challenges the DOJ’s order appointing Mueller [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must release or conduct bond hearings for 1,444 detained Iraqi immigrants. In a followup to his July nationwide stay protecting the detainees from deportation, US District Judge Mark Goldsmith held that unless the government can show [...]
