A Russian national had his first appearance in an Ohio court Thursday following his extradition from South Korea for his alleged role in a cybercriminal organization. Vladimir Dunaev is accused of being part of a transnational group that deployed a suite of malware programs known as Trickbot. The malware employed trojans and ransomware to infect millions [...]
A group of UN human rights experts Monday condemned the US policy of mass expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, warning that collective expulsions violate international law. Thousands of Haitian refugees have gathered in Texas since September, and the US began deporting them en masse, under the so-called “Title 42” policy put in place under [...]
The Austrian federal chancellery on Saturday sent a draft law to parliament to legalize assisted death for seriously ill adults. The draft law follows the decision last December by the Constitutional Court of Austria that found the ban on assisted death to be unconstitutional. The court found that the ban violated the right to self-determination, [...]
The Supreme Court again refused Friday to block enforcement of a Texas law that effectively bans all abortions after six weeks but agreed to fast-track oral arguments in two cases about the law. The two cases are Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v. Texas. The former case was brought by a coalition [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday a new nationwide initiative to combat the practice of redlining. Redlining is a type of lending discrimination in which banks refuse to lend money to people seeking home loans because of their race or national origin. Redlining as a practice first came to prominence during the New Deal era [...]
The US Supreme Court issued two unsigned orders Monday regarding qualified immunity for police officers. The first of the unsigned orders involves Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna, a case based on an incident in 2016. Daniel Rivas-Villegas is a police officer who responded to a 911 call from a 12-year-old girl reporting that she, her sibling, and [...]
The Supreme Court added two new cases Monday involving Native Americans to its docket this term. The first case is Denezpi v. United States, which asks the Court to consider an issue regarding the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. In 2017 Merle Denezpi, a member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty to an assault [...]
Local activists and rights groups in California filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Marin County Sheriff for illegally sharing the license plate and other sensitive data of drivers with federal and out-of-state agencies over a period of years. Three local residents filed the suit, represented by lawyers from the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), [...]
A man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court, claiming that local law enforcement officials conspired with white nationalist militias during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year in Wisconsin. Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer, which led to [...]
A tech group backed by the Australian units of Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Monday announced the creation of a special committee to resolve complaints about misinformation posted on their websites. The Digital Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said that the new committee would oversee the group members’ adherence to the Australian Code of Practice on [...]
