Violence by government and aligned forces in South Sudan may constitute war crimes , according to a UN report published Tuesday. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released the report , which details the atrocities occurring in the former State of Unity. This area has had a high military presence since 2014, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is immune from certain claims brought by passengers alleging wrongdoing. In a 2-1 ruling, the court held that TSA officers are not “investigative or law enforcement officers,” and therefore are protected by federal law against certain tort claims. Citing [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld Monday a US District Court ruling that New Jersey’s new bail system, which does away with most cash bail, is constitutional. The law was challenged by Brittan Holland, who was arrested for aggravated assault last year. He alleged that the new system created by the [...]
US President Donald Trump granted two full presidential pardons Tuesday to Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., and his son, Steven Hammond, cattle ranchers in Oregon who were serving 5-year sentences for arson on federal land. It was this sentencing that set off a 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. While the [...]
Myanmar prosecutors on Monday charged two Reuters reporters with violating the 1911 Official Secrets Act by reporting on military unrest in the state of Rakhine. Thie act has been amended multiple times and is intended to protect the state from espionage and spying. Myanmar officials alleged the reporters obtained classified military documents and had the [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday extended the deadline for US attorneys to reunite 102 immigrant children with their families. Under a June 26 order granting the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was to reunite children under five years old with their families by Monday, [...]
US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Brett M. Kavanaugh of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the US Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who will retire on July 31st. Kennedy was nominated in 1987 by then-president Ronald Reagan. He was seen as having a relatively neutral ideology and methodology of interpretation. Throughout his [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Monday a $10 billion class action settlement against Volkswagen for a 2015 emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen has admitted to installing devices in certain models of their diesel vehicles to have them defeat US emissions tests. Anywhere from 10-40 times the legal amount of diesel fumes were being [...]
Within 24 hours, three cabinet members tasked with coordinating the UK’s leave from the European Union known as Brexit have resigned. The first, Secretary of State David Davis, who submitted his resignation late Sunday, was shortly followed by a junior secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced his [...]
The European Parliament voted down a highly-debated copyright bill Thursday, which would have made sweeping changes to the copyright regulation of online media. It was a bill big firms such as Google and Facebook argued would stifle creativity and sharing, as it aimed to regulate these companies’ monitoring more closely for infringements. License holders — publishers, [...]
