A Texas state judge entered a default judgment and permanent injunction against New York doctor Margaret Carpenter on Thursday, finding her liable for unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Judge Bryan Gantt’s default judgment resulted from Carpenter’s failure to respond to the Texas civil suit against her. Judge Bryan Gantt granted Texas’s requested relief [...]

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyer Faisal Chaudry was arrested on Friday after using derogatory language toward an official at the jail where Khan has been held for the last 553 days, according to local media. Chaudry and three other lawyers visited Adiala Jail as per a court order to attend the Anti-Terrorist Court [...]

A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for enabling the termination of a minor’s pregnancy by prescribing an abortion bill. The grand jury also indicted the minor’s mother, though the mother’s name has not been released to protect the minor’s identity. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill supported the indictment, stating: “It [...]

A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that found the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA) violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second Department of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division rejected the defendants’ argument that any application of the NYVRA would violate the [...]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading or physically obstructing abortion clinic entrances. Trump remarked while signing the pardon order: “They should not have been prosecuted … Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.” The activists [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered its Civil Rights Division to halt all ongoing litigation from former President Joe Biden’s administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, according to multiple internal memos that were obtained by various media outlets on Wednesday. The memos, which were sent to the temporary head of the Civil [...]

US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders on Friday, marking the highest number of pardons and commutations issued by a president in US history. Biden said he commuted the sentences because he saw them as disproportionately long for the sentences the offenders would have received today given the passage of [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 218-206 Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban transgender women from competing in women’s school sports teams. The bill bars persons deemed biologically male at birth from participating in school sports activities “designated for women or girls.” However, the prohibition does not bar transgender women from training with [...]

South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) on Saturday sent an official document to Acting President Choi Sang-mok  requesting him to order the Presidential Security Service to comply with execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol, according to the Korean Broadcasting System. After President Yoon failed to appear for the CIO’s [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday published its finding that Oklahoma discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ found that Oklahoma unnecessarily puts individuals with behavioral health disabilities in institutional facilities for long periods, isolating those individuals from the general community. These [...]