The Supreme Court of Norway, in a decision Tuesday, upheld a judgment of the Borgarting Court of Appeals, which had allowed the government to grant oil production licenses on new sections of the Norwegian continental shelf. The case concerned the validity of an administrative decision from June of 2016  which granted oil production licenses for [...]

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Monday updates to the state’s Excellence in Policing initiative, a set of the guidelines which govern the use of force for New Jersey’s nearly 40,000 police officers at the state, county, and local levels. The updated policy is comprised of seven core principles, the first being “the sanctity of [...]

US Attorney General William Barr announced Monday that Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi has been charged for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988 that killed citizens from 21 countries, including 190 Americans. It was considered the deadliest terror attack on the United States and [...]

President Trump issued an executive order Monday to make federal buildings more “beautiful.” The executive order promotes neoclassical architecture and criticizes the modernist style for federal buildings. Throughout the order, the President admonished the General Services Administration for its policy of encouraging contemporary architectural designs throughout the last several decades: For approximately a century and [...]

Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeals ruled on Monday that a government-mandated mask ban, instituted on October 5, 2019, is constitutional. During last year’s anti-government protests, which have largely died down, many demonstrators wore masks to hide their identities from authorities and to protect themselves from tear gas. Opposition lawmakers and activists in Hong Kong [...]

US President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign committee petitioned the Supreme Court on Sunday to reverse three election-related decisions made by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The filing states that “n key jurisdictions across the country, state and local election officials and courts altered or ignored state election laws,” in alleged violation of the US Constitution. [...]

Three petitions challenging the Sunday dissolution of Nepal’s Federal Parliament have been filed in the Supreme Court of Nepal, the highest court in the country. The petitions challenge Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s request to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to dissolve Parliament. Bhandari granted the request and scheduled a new, brought-forward election to take [...]

India’s Allahbad High Court ruled Friday that no coercive action may be taken against a man accused of violating the Uttar Pradesh ordinance on Religious Conversion. The High Court also indicated that the matter will be heard with a petition challenging the constitutionality of the statute. By preventing no “coercive action,” the Court has prevented [...]

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published new rules governing foreign investment on Saturday that establish an approval process for foreign investment in industries critical to national security, including energy and infrastructure. In a Chinese-language Q&A, the Commission defended the new rules as not protectionist, arguing that major European and North American economies, including [...]

Thai actor Inthira “Sai” Charoenpura was charged Monday with allegedly contravening Thailand’s lèse-majesté law which prohibits defaming the royal family despite occasions of her speaking publicly about the monarchy being unknown. The Associated Press reported that Charoenpura, among other protestors, answered a police summons to hear their charges of allegedly contravening section 112 of the [...]