The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 227-203 to approve the conference committee version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act . The vote split largely along party lines, with 12 Republicans...
The city of Detroit filed suit on Monday in the United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan against a number of pharmaceutical companies in relation to the distribution of prescription opioid drugs. Following the lead...
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from preventing two undocumented immigrants in federal custody from accessing abortion services. The government immediately appealed the decision. The two...
Anti-virus and cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday seeking to set aside an order directing all civilian agencies to stop using Kaspersky products. Kaspersky alleges...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Monday vetoed a bill that would have placed stricter limits on abortion. The vetoed bill, SB-3, decreased the legal gestational age for an abortion from 24 weeks to 20...
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston warned Friday that "he American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the US ... now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the...
French Economy Minster Bruno Le Maire filed suit against Amazon Monday for unfair competitive practices. Following a two-year investigation, the French Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control had concluded that...
The Honduras Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on Sunday declared incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernández the winner of last month's disputed presidential election. The tribunal found that Hernández won by 50,446 votes, receiving...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those...
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. In the midst of a growing and devastating opioid epidemic, officials in Lorain County, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain...