New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed three bills into law establishing a compassionate release program for certain inmates and also a Corrections Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention Fund. In addition to the compassion release program and crime prevention fund, the bills approved Monday will work together to require a cost-savings study of compassionate release programs and [...]
A New York federal judge Monday ordered transcripts of depositions conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell to be unsealed as soon as possible, to shed light on the sex-trafficking scheme she allegedly ran with the late registered sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, who was arrested in New Hampshire in early July 2020, is accused of [...]
A Russian court Monday sentenced a former mayor to six months of community service after finding him guilty of criminal negligence due to a major diesel fuel leak from a storage tank in the Arctic city of Norilsk in May. In a statement, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court announced that Riant Akhmetshin was sentenced to “correctional [...]
A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator has awarded the EU the right to impose tariffs on USD $4 billion of American goods annually, in retaliation against illegal subsidies given to the US plane manufacturer Boeing. The Tuesday decision marks the consummation of a 16-year-long legal battle before the WTO. It follows a parallel case that the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Trump administration must face allegations brought by a Texas-based butterfly sanctuary on the US-Mexico border, asserting environmental and constitutional challenges in connection with the federal government’s plans to construct a wall to prevent illegal border crossings. The North American Butterfly Association [...]
US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Saturday indicating plans to move forward with an extension of safeguard taxes to cover double-sided solar panels that were previously exempted, while also raising the future overall tariff rate from 15 percent to 18 percent. The proclamation comes more than two year years after Trump approved new tariffs [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday declined to act on a request from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reinstate federal regulations requiring patients seeking abortion-inducing pills to pick up the medication in-person at the hospital or clinic, instead of receiving them by mail or delivery. A federal judge blocked the FDA’s requirements [...]
In a dispute over who is entitled to almost USD $2 billion in gold warehoused at the Bank of England, the English Court of Appeal on Monday overturned an earlier High Court ruling on whom the UK officially recognizes as Venezuela’s president. The decision is the latest in a multi-year dispute as to who is [...]
The Supreme Court of Ireland found Tuesday that Subway’s sandwich bread exceeds Ireland’s statutory sugar limit and therefore cannot be defined as bread. The 51-page decision follows over a decade of litigation brought by Brookfinders Ltd., the US fast-food chain’s Irish franchisee, who argues that its bread qualified as a “staple food,” and was therefore [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges Monday against a former Amazon.com, Inc. finance manager along with two of her family members, alleging a multi-year insider trading scheme “in advance of Amazon earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018.” The SEC’s complaint, filed in the district court in Seattle, asserts that Laksha [...]
