US Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter of the District of Colorado Monday ordered attorneys Ernest Walker and Gary Fielder to pay $187,000 in legal fees to their opponents for a case they filed in December of 2020. The case argued that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Walker and Fielder [...]

Shareholders filed a class action lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday. The lawsuit is based on recent claims by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who revealed that Facebook continued to implement techniques to increase engagement with young people after internal research revealed that those [...]

Judge Ellen Biden of the New York County Supreme Court Thursday dismissed the convictions of Muhammad A. Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, two of the three men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. joined the families of Aziz and Islam in filing the motion seeking [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Thursday designated senior Houthi military leader Saleh Mesfer Alshaer. OFAC added Alshaer to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list, which generally blocks designated persons’ assets and prohibits US persons from dealing with them. In an accompanying press release, OFAC Director [...]

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Sunday released new draft regulations implementing new laws recently passed by China on cybersecurity, data security, and personal data. China’s Personal Information Protection Law took effect earlier this month and carries the strongest consumer protection requirements globally to date. Fines can reach 50 million Chinese yuan (about $7.8 million [...]

China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Sunday announced the repatriation of banker Xu Guojun to China. Xu fled China in 2001 for the US, where he lived until repatriation. Xu was the president of Bank of China branches in the southern city of Kaiping. Kaiping, a city in Guangdong province, has a population of [...]

President Joe Biden signed the RENACER Act on Wednesday, which calls for increased sanctions against the Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega. The RENACER Act passed Congress with strong bipartisan support on November 3. The bill was introduced in the Senate on March 25, but activity on the bill accelerated in November during the run-up to Nicaragua’s [...]

The UN Security Council announced new sanctions on Tuesday against three Houthi leaders for threatening the peace, security and stability of Yemen. The sanctions subject them to a global asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo. The three leaders sanctioned are Yusuf Al-Madani, Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer, and Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari. [...]

A federal judge in the District of Columbia Tuesday denied a motion from former president Donald Trump to block enforcement of an order she had yet to issue. On Monday night, the former president asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue an administrative stay preventing the National Archive from releasing more than 750 pages of documents [...]

A federal district judge in Fort Worth Monday denied United Airlines employees’ motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the company’s vaccine mandate. United Airlines employees sued the company over its accommodation policy for medical or religious exemptions. They argued that the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by [...]