The US Department of Justice (DOJ) “did not effectively plan for … the impact that family unit adult prosecutions would have on children,” despite awareness from senior DOJ leadership that the program would lead to the separation of children, according to a report Thursday from the DOJ Office of the Inspector General reviewing the implementation [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that prosecutors have reached an agreement with the Boeing Company that resolved a criminal charge involving Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane. The charge had been brought following the 737 MAX crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2018 and 2019, which resulted in more [...]

A federal judge denied US President Donald Trump’s latest campaign lawsuit in Georgia on Tuesday, removing one of the final options left to Trump for challenging his loss in the 2020 presidential election before Congress counts the Electoral College votes on January 6. Judge Mark Cohen in Atlanta denied the Trump campaign’s motion for preliminary [...]

A judge in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest request for bail on Monday, citing the need for continued detention due to the British socialite’s flight risk, given her opaque finances and dual citizenship. Maxwell has been imprisoned since July 2020 while awaiting trial on [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had filed a nationwide lawsuit against Walmart, Inc., alleging that the retailer had unlawfully dispensed opiates from its national pharmacy chain in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. The DOJ’s suit includes a request for injunctive relief in addition to complaints of hundreds of thousands of Controlled [...]

The US Supreme Court released a per curiam opinion in Trump v. New York Friday, dismissing the case for a lack of jurisdiction and finding the issue to not be suitable for adjudication at this time. The decision is the culmination of several months of litigation originating from President Trump’s July Presidential Memorandum, which ordered [...]

A federal judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump’s campaign against the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Saturday. The judge rejected the plaintiffs’ request that the Wisconsin presidential election results be declared void and that the Wisconsin legislature instead select the state’s ten electors. [...]

The UK government announced Thursday that it had granted Pfizer legal indemnity protecting the American pharmaceutical company from civil lawsuits due to any unforeseen complications arising from problems with its COVID-19 vaccine. The special legal indemnity was the result of an emergency government consultation in September, when the UK Department of Health & Social Care [...]

A Wednesday report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) has found that global cluster munition casualties increased by 92 percent in 2019 when compared to annual casualties in 2018. The increase has been primarily linked to the use of cluster munitions in the war in Syria, with 219 casualties occurring in [...]

A group of Orthodox Jewish synagogues in New York State filed an emergency application on Monday with the US Supreme Court seeking relief from state COVID-19 restrictions. The applicants, Agudath Israel of Kew Garden Hills and Agudath Israel Madison, are synagogues affiliated with Agudath Israel of America, a national grassroots Orthodox Jewish organization. The relief [...]