US District Judge Dana Christensen in the District of Montana on Thursday ordered an immediate halt to a scheduled grizzly bear hunt near Yellowstone National Park in Montana and Idaho—what would have been the first grizzly hunt since 1974. The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced in June 2017 that grizzlies in and around Yellowstone [...]
The Canadian province of British Columbia filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia targeting 40 pharmaceutical manufacturers, including maker of OxyContin Purdue Pharma. The lawsuit aims to recover opioid-related costs incurred by the government’s healthcare system in the midst of the opioid epidemic. “In court, we will argue that [...]
Army Colonel James Pohl, the US Military judge tasked with overseeing 9/11 cases, announced his retirement Monday before the completion of the trials that began in May 2012 and have seen numerous delays. “I have made a personal decision not to request an additional voluntary retiree recall and thus I will leave active duty after 38 [...]
A veterans advocacy group brought a federal lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday related to unofficial or undisclosed meetings held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort by a group focused on crafting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy. The complaint alleges that Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marck [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court’s decision to dismiss a group of University of Texas at Austin professors’ challenge to a Texas law permitting the concealed carry of handguns on campuses as well as a University-specific policy that prohibited professors from banning weapons in their classrooms. [...]
A US District Judge in Montana ruled Wednesday that the US State Department must conduct a more thorough environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline project, ordering the $8 billion project’s construction to come to an immediate halt. An environmental review was initially published for the pipeline’s original plans, which stretched from Canada through Nebraska. [...]
The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee adopted articles of impeachment on Tuesday against all four justices remaining on the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals. A West Virginia legislature statement outlines the 14 articles that were approved, including accusing all four justices of failing to “properly carry out the administrative duties of the court” and wasteful [...]
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines signed the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Act of 2018 into law Monday, creating its first national identification system, which will be issued to all citizens and foreign residents in the Philippines. The goal of the system, Duterte said, is for safety and better privacy, efficiency, reduced corruption and a simplified [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) formally unveiled plans Thursday to rollback fuel economy standards previously aimed at bringing cars and small trucks to 50 miles per gallon by 2025. The new plan will freeze 2020 mileage targets, which are about 30 miles per gallon, for the next [...]
Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus argued in a lawsuit filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland that President Donald Trump’s plan to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a violation of the US Constitution. Congressional Republicans attempted and failed to repeal the ACA several times last year. Shortly after, [...]
