The UN Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday that Nepal violated Article 7 and Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Covenant), concerning an individual complaint from a domestic worker, Mr. Bholi Pharaka, who claimed that he was tortured and forced to work in Kathmandu from the age of 9. Pharaka [...]

A state appeals court in New Jersey ruled on Tuesday that the state’s newly passed law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drug can move forward. The ruling overturns a lower court’s recent decision blocking the law. The law, titled the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, would allow patients with [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a district court’s preliminary injunction of an Indiana law requiring parental notification when an unemancipated minor seeks an abortion. Indiana Code § 16-34-2-4(a) prevents a physician from performing an abortion for an unemancipated minor without the written consent of the minor’s parent. Section [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held Tuesday that under the Federal Reserve’s Regulation E, which implemented the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, a financial institution must clearly define the procedures used for overdraft fees. The case, Tims v. LGE Community Credit Union (LGE), centered on two $30 overdraft fees that LGE charged [...]

The governor of Illinois signed a bill into law Tuesday that “works to increase diverse voices on corporate boards across the state.” The law requires “publicly-traded companies headquartered in Illinois to submit an annual report to the Secretary of State’s Office” regarding the representation of women and minorities on their corporate boards. The law requires [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday held that Russia committed numerous human rights violations against Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after complaining of maltreatment. Among various violations, the unanimous decision found that the authorities deprived Magnitsky of important medical care and had failed to comply [...]

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) submitted a court filing Monday arguing that states cannot sue over changes they claim make school lunches less healthy. The memorandum of law was filed in response to a complaint by several states over changes to the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. The complaint alleges that a [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri on Tuesday blocked Missouri’s 8-week abortion ban from going into effect. Missouri’s governor signed the law in May of this year, making it illegal to for any pregnant individual in the state to have access to an abortion after eight weeks, unless [...]

The US Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to stay an injunction blocking a July 15 Trump administration asylum rule requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the US-Mexico border. Under the new rule, people from countries like Honduras and El Salvador, where one would have to [...]

An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $572.1 million to the state for their role in the state’s opioid crisis. The first trial of an opioid manufacturer, the decision is also the first holding a drug-maker culpable for the opioid epidemic. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter alleged that J&J’s false [...]