A US federal district court judge in New York on Friday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reinstate the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program allows people who immigrated to the United States illegally as children to apply for a forbearance of removal, and permits them authorization to [...]

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Thursday that it would soon open for sale oil and gas leases of land in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, which opened portions of ANWR to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court injunction that had blocked a North Carolina law requiring voters to present photo identification. In 2018 North Carolina voters approved a state constitutional amendment (Art. VI sec. 2(4)) requiring in-person voters to “present photographic identification before voting.” The same year, [...]

Thousands of farmers descended on India’s capital Friday to protest legislation passed in September that liberalizes the agricultural goods market. The legislation allows farmers to sell their produce anywhere instead of in state-mandated markets, changes the conditions under which the government may regulate the market in essential goods, and provides a framework under which farmers [...]

The prosecutor-general of Azerbaijan said in an interview Wednesday that his office is looking into allegations of war crimes during the recent conflict between his nation and Armenia over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has already raised the alarm about possible war crimes, issuing a statement on November 2 [...]

A judge for the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an injunction Wednesday to prevent the state from taking any further action to certify the results of the November 3 general election. Judge Patricia McCullough issued the injunction in response to a lawsuit filed by Representative Mike Kelly (R-Butler) and state congressional candidate Sean Parnell, among [...]

The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday of a lower court injunction that prohibited the enforcement of a Tennessee law banning abortion because of gender, race, or a Down Syndrome diagnosis. The decision comes as part of a lawsuit filed by Tennessee abortion providers seeking to block several restrictive abortion laws [...]

A federal court in Georgia denied a motion Thursday seeking a temporary restraining order to block the certification of presidential election results from the state. The lawsuit had been filed by L. Lin Wood, Jr., an Atlanta lawyer and supporter of President Trump, best known for representing Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused of the [...]

Argentina’s president announced Tuesday that he would be presenting two bills to the legislature regarding women’s right to comprehensive health care, including the legalization of abortion. In his statement, Alberto Fernandez noted that “the criminalization of abortion has been of no use,” only driving women who seek abortions to illegal providers. He cited statistics that [...]

Plaintiffs  represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic and co-counsel at Jenner & Block announced Wednesday they had reached a settlement agreement with the US Army in a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 50,000 veterans who received less-than-Honorable discharges. Steve Kennedy and Alicia Carson served in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, [...]