The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said Wednesday that the judicial authority considering postponement of a European arrest warrant must assess whether there exists “a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment within the meaning of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ,” a decision that could impact Poland’s ability to extradite from other [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled Tuesday that Florida’s near ban on early voting on college campuses violates the First, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. The lawsuit was brought by six University of Florida and Florida State University students, the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Adam Goodman Foundation. The [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Monday that a lawsuit against the Trump administration concerning the decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians, Salvadorans and Hondurans can proceed, saying the claims accusing the administration of terminating TPS for the three countries under the influence of racial motivations [...]
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, and Nawaz’s husband, appealed to the Islamabad High Court on Monday, challenging their convictions handed down by a Pakistani anticorruption court earlier this month. Sharif, Nawaz and her husband were arrested on Friday upon arriving in Pakistan to face their sentences. Sharif was sentenced to [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was not required to engage in a formal notice-and-comment rule making procedure before shifting the criterion for evaluating grant applications under Title X of the Public Health Service Act . Title X allows [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday extended the deadline for US attorneys to reunite 102 immigrant children with their families. Under a June 26 order granting the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was to reunite children under five years old with their families by Monday, [...]
US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Brett M. Kavanaugh of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the US Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who will retire on July 31st. Kennedy was nominated in 1987 by then-president Ronald Reagan. He was seen as having a relatively neutral ideology and methodology of interpretation. Throughout his [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ordered a two month delay in Michael Flynn’s sentencing hearing for his guilty plea concerning charges related to making false statements to the FBI. The order comes in response to requests from both Special Counsel Robert Muller and Flynn’s defense team for additional time [...]
The European Commission launched an infringement procedure on Monday to protect Poland’s Supreme Court from a judiciary law that would force one-third of its judges to retire. The law drops the retirement age from 70 to 65, which will require 27 out of 72 judges to retire, including “the First President of the Supreme Court, [...]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth signed the European Union Withdraw Act on Tuesday, giving royal assent to withdraw the UK from the EU. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow announced the Queen’s assent to the legislation. At the forefront, the Act repeals the European Communities Act of 1972 (ECA) , withdrawing the UK from the EU. The [...]
