A report published by Amnesty International on Monday found that the Syrian government, supported by Russia, committed a series of war crimes in northwest Syria in 2019 and 2020. The report alleges the government committed the attacks from the air and ground, which struck residential areas and vital infrastructure. The findings are based on interviews of [...]
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed House Bill 360 on Friday, setting 18 as the minimum age to obtain a marriage license without parental consent. Pennsylvania becomes only the third state to limit child marriage following Delaware and New Jersey. Wolf explained that this bill “will help prevent child exploitation.” The bill says that a minor [...]
The US Supreme Court heard remote oral arguments on Monday in cases involving a state’s jurisdiction on Native American lands for crimes committed and employment discrimination in religious schools. McGirt v. Oklahoma which asks whether the state of Oklahoma has the jurisdiction to prosecute a crime committed within the historical boundaries of a reservation. In the [...]
Harold Frazier, the Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council, refused Friday to remove health checkpoints established at the entrances to the reservation. President Bear Runner of the Oglala Sioux have also refused to remove the checkpoints. The Cheyenne River Sioux and the Oglala Sioux have both erected health checkpoints at entrances to the [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) released a statement Friday condemning a German court’s challenge of the ECJ’s judicial supremacy. “In order to ensure that EU law is applied uniformly,” says the statement, “the Court of Justice alone—which was created for that purpose by the Member States—has jurisdiction to rule that an act of an [...]
A lawsuit was filed in federal district court for the middle district of Florida against governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday. The suit was filed on behalf of several plaintiffs who either own or manage vacation rental properties in the state. They allege that a ban on vacation home rentals due to the COVID-19 pandemic has [...]
The Delaware Court of Chancery issued a ruling on Friday holding that the property tax system in all three Delaware counties is unconstitutional. In a suit filed two years ago, two plaintiffs, Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP State Conference for Branches, claimed that public schools across the state failed to provide adequate education [...]
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregory and Travis McMichael on Thursday for the February 23 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The arrest came days after the surface of a video showing the shooting. The video depicts Arbery, a 25-year old black man, jogging when a white truck stops in front of him. The video shows [...]
The 112-year-old, Dallas-based luxury retailer Nieman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy Thursday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston. At the time of filing, Nieman Marcus said it has “funded-debt obligations of approximately $5.5 billion.” The filing stated that the need for bankruptcy comes in the “face of unprecedented [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested on Thursday that the Supreme Court block the release of grand jury documents associated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. In its application for a stay, the DOJ said that without the Supreme Court’s grant of a stay, “the government will [...]
