US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Thursday rejected a bid to prevent New York City from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers, firefighters and police officers. Sotomayor was unwilling to grant the emergency request, received on November 4, to block the policy. Petitioners brought the emergency request alongside their ongoing appeal of a lower [...]
Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month, for his defamatory statements about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. Jones alleged that the parents of the victims were “crisis actors” and claimed that [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk Saturday published an open letter urging Twitter owner Elon Musk to ensure that human rights are central to the management of Twitter. The letter noted that Twitter has been a force in the “global revolution” that has transformed how people communicate. Türk stressed how important the platform [...]
