The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday vacated 88 decisions by the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York that prevented the trustee tasked with liquidating the remaining assets of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme from seizing foreign property that had been transferred out of the US prior to Madoff’s [...]

The US Senate on Monday blocked a bill that would have required health care to be provided to infants born alive following failed abortion attempts. The procedural vote required 60 votes to proceed but received only 53, with the Senate split mainly along party lines. Democrat opposition to the bill emphasized the need for reduced Congressional [...]

Cubans have overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new constitution that enshrines the country’s one-party socialist system as “irrevocable” and institutes other economic and social reforms. The president of Cuba’s national electoral commission, Alina Balseiro Gutierrez, claims that 84.4 percent of Cuba’s 7.8 million potential voters participated in the Sunday referendum. Of the potential electorate, 73.31 [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear challenges to eight wrongful death lawsuits against two large cigarette companies, allowing the cases to proceed. In a series of denials of certiorari without a written statement the court refused to hear challenges to a series of appellate court rulings against two major tobacco companies, Phillip Morris [...]

A federal judge on Monday rejected three motions attempting to block the enforcement of the new ban on bump stocks produced by the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The ATF’s ban was created as a response to the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds wounded, [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck on Monday to decide whether a private nonprofit public-access television channel can be sued for violations of the First Amendment. The case originates from a 2016 lawsuit brought by two public-access television producers against MNN, the operator of the public-access TV channels [...]

The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a motion Monday requesting the US District Court for the Southern District if New York to hold Tesla CEO Elon Musk in contempt after Musk tweeted inaccurate information regarding expected sales for 2019 in violation of the settlement agreement between the SEC and Tesla. The tweet stated that [...]

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion Monday outlining the legal consequences of separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965. The UK and Mauritius, by virtue of the Lancaster House agreement, detached the Chagos Archipelago form Mauritius and established the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). Originally, the agreement aided the US’s desire for a [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Rotkiske v. Klemm, a case involving equitable tolling of the statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Kevin Rotkiske incurred credit card debt to Capital One between 2003 and 2005 totaling $1500, which was turned over to Paul Klemm’s law firm for collection. Klemm’s [...]

In a per curiam decision Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Ninth Circuit judge, who died before the court’s opinion in the case was filed, would be precluded from counting toward a member of the majority opinion. The respondent argued that Judge Stephen Reinhardt, had “fully participated in this case and authored this [...]