A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot utilize a proclamation to keep 80 refugees out of the United States. The lead plaintiff, known as “Plaintiff Pacito,” and his family had already been approved for resettlement under the United States Refugee [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday urged Mexican authorities to investigate death threats against two reporters, Óscar Balderas and Luis Chaparro. CPJ’s Mexico representative, Jan-Albert Hoosten, condemned the Mexican government for its inaction, stating, The brazen threats against Óscar Balderas and Luis Chaparro are part of an ongoing campaign to terrorize any journalist [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday found that Russia has committed grave violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in Ukraine. Judges at the ECHR rendered a series of decisions related to consolidated complaints brought forth by Ukraine and the Netherlands since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014. Among the alleged violations [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday demanded that Turkish authorities release four staff members of the LeMan magazine who were arrested for a cartoon purportedly depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Police in Türkiye detained the cartoonists on Monday. The publication depicted Muhammad, Islam’s prophet, and Moses, a critical prophet of Judaism, shaking hands in [...]
Two judges for the King’s Bench Division of the High Court in London ruled on Monday that the UK’s incidental export of fighter jet parts to Israel is lawful. In a 72-page judgment, Justices Males and Steyn contemplated the Secretary of State for Business and Trade‘s carve-out for the export of F-35 fighter jets components. [...]
The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that mandates that adult consumers of pornographic material verify their ages before accessing the material. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the court held that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. The law, HB 1181, only applies to “commercial” entities, including “corporation, limited liability compan, [...]
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Tuesday said that Serbia needs to take further action to “protect people deprived of their liberty from torture and ill-treatment.” During a week-long mission to Serbia, the SPT visited prisons, police cells, remand centers and homes for the elderly and children. The delegation also conducted interviews [...]
A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that US President Donald Trump likely had the authority to mobilize members of the California National Guard over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom in response to protests against US immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. While the court wrote that Trump’s decision [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing to issue passports to transgender, nonbinary and intersex individuals that reflect their identities. The ruling is an expansion of a previously issued preliminary injunction, wherein Judge Julia Kobick held that the Trump administration’s passport [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration’s tariffs may remain in place while it reviews a lower court decision that had blocked them. The original lower court decision, a slip opinion from the US Court of International Trade, held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [...]
