The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that Ohio must pay $382,529.98 to cover attorneys’ fees accrued by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU of Ohio and other organizations who challenged the state’s abortion legislation. The suit relates to a 2004 law placing limits on the prescription of mifepristone, a pill used to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed Tennessee’s suit against the federal government over financing refugee resettlement within the state. Tennessee contended that the federal government should foot the bill on all costs associated with refugee resettlement. In passing these expenses on to the states, Tennessee argued, the federal government [...]
The European Commission referred Hungary to the EU Court of Justice on Thursday due to continued legislation that criminalizes asylum application support and restricts asylum requests. The referral follows a 2018 formal notice concerning the same legislation. The law was introduced by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has gained traction using an anti-immigration platform. Per the [...]
The Supreme Court of South Carolina on Thursday abolished common-law marriage, citing an overwhelming national trend. The court came to this conclusion reviewing a case that hinged on the “mutual assent” requirement to prove a common-law marriage. In its review, the court chose to refine the test for legal marriages. Justice Kaye Hearn focused her [...]
US Attorney General William Barr on Thursday directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt an addendum resuming capital punishment after nearly two decades. Additionally, the Acting Director of the BOP was directed to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of murdering children and the elderly. In a press release from the Department [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum rule Wednesday. The new rule, announced July 15, requires most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the US-Mexico border. Under the new rule, Hondurans and Salvadorans would have to be denied asylum [...]
Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister of Kosovo, was in The Hague Tuesday to answer questions about war crimes allegedly committed during the 1989-99 war. Haradinaj resigned last week “not to be questioned as the country’s leader” by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. He ultimately declined to answer any of the prosecutors’ questions, presumably on the [...]
Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff filed a petition for clemency with the Justice Department Monday. Madoff was arrested in December 2008 for defrauding investors of billions of dollars while head of the investment firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. In June 2009 Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his crimes. According to [...]
Judge Kristine Baker of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state of Arkansas, and its officials, from enforcing three recently passed acts pertaining to abortion. The three acts, Act 700, Act 619, and Act 493, all relate to women’s reproductive rights and are the focus of [...]
A former Nazi soldier was charged by German prosecutors for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims Wednesday after he made inflammatory statements in an interview broadcast on television. The accused was identified by media to be Karl Münter, who had previously been convicted in France over his role in the killing of 86 [...]
