The US House of Representatives approved the Open Courts Act of 2020 (OCA) Tuesday, a bill that would make the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system free to the public. The OCA is a bipartisan effort to make court records “publicly accessible, free of charge and without requiring registration.” In the case of [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. and Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid. Henry Schein, Inc. addresses a narrow legal issue related to arbitration clauses, weighing whether the court or the arbitrator should determine if a case is arbitrable when a clause in a contract designated the [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint with the US Supreme Court Tuesday against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn their 2020 presidential election results. Paxton, who has been under indictment for the past five years on felony securities fraud charges, and about whom seven top aides recently wrote a [...]

More than 1,500 attorneys across the US have signed a petition calling for bar associations to condemn and investigate President Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers. Since Trump lost his bid at reelection, his legal team has filed an abundance of lawsuits challenging the validity of the November presidential election. However, they have not only been unsuccessful [...]

A Judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction Monday, preventing the Trump administration from prohibiting the operation of the popular China-based social media app TikTok. The order follows President Donald Trump’s signing of Exec. Order No. 13942, which identified TikTok, a short-loop video sharing app presently used [...]

The Council of the European Union adopted a regulation Monday establishing a global human rights sanctions regime. The regulation is meant to allow the EU to target individuals, entities and bodies, including state and non-state actors, that are responsible or associated with serious human rights violations worldwide. It also targets individuals and entities associated with [...]

The US Supreme Court denied injunctive relief Tuesday to Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to block certification of the state’s election results on the ground that the expansion of mail-in ballots violated the state constitution. The petition was filed by Republican Representative Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and state electors. Kelly claimed that Act 77, enacted on [...]

A group of more than 350 electors filed suit against the Electoral Commission in the High Court of New Zealand Sunday seeking to have the results of the country’s recent cannabis referendum dismissed. In October, 50.7 percent of New Zealand voters responded “No” to the cannabis referendum question “Do you support the proposed Cannabis Legalisation [...]

The New Zealand government is set to strengthen the country’s hate speech and counter-terrorism laws following the release Monday of a Royal Commission of Inquiry’s report on the March 2019 Christchurch terror attack. The commission was tasked in March 2019 with investigating the terror attack at a Christchurch mosque, which resulted in 51 fatalities. The [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in Parents for Privacy v. Barr, letting stand a lower court ruling that allows transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice stand. An Oregon District Court refused to block the school district’s policy and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [...]