The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Court on Monday blocked a lower court ruling that expanded the types of documents voters could use to prove their identity for elections in North Dakota, siding with state officials over Native American tribal members. North Dakota’s legislature passed a law in 2017 that required voters to [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Minnesota ruled Friday that a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that bans discrimination in health care based on sex includes transgender and gender non-conforming people. Plaintiffs Brittany Tovar and Reid Olsen brought suit against health care providers Essentia Health and Innovis Health over “health care [...]
Governor Ralph Torres of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Friday signed HB 20-178 to legalize marijuana. In particular, the bill allows a person who is 21 or older to “possess and transport up to one ounce of marijuana, 16 ounces of marijuana products in solid form, 72 ounces of cannabis in liquid [...]
Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was indicted Monday on charges of bribery in connection with construction companies receiving public works contracts. The allegations involve a complex network of politicians and businessmen alleged to have been involved in a bribery scheme during her two terms as president from 2007-2015. This latest set of charges stem [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the UK’s bulk interception program violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights, the article pertaining to the respect of private life. The court held that the bulk interception program violated Article 8: as there was insufficient oversight both of the selection of Internet [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) found Thursday that it has jurisdiction to investigate officials of the Myanmar government for violence towards the Rohingya minority. The violence against the Rohingya minority has drawn human rights groups to call for the arrest of government officials. The Chamber found that it has the power to entertain the Prosecutor’s request [...]
The government of the island nation of Mauritius presented its claim Monday to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the British government forced the transfer of the Chagos Islands as a condition of independence in the 1960s. The UK leased the Diego Garcia island within the Chagos Archipelago to the US in 1966, which was [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday ordered the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to halt its policy of banning agnostics and atheists from giving the invocations to start the daily legislative floor session. The plaintiffs were Pennsylvania residents who claimed that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ policy of banning [...]
The US Department on Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a statement of interest supporting the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard University over alleged racial discrimination against Asian-American students in the admissions process. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in the press release: No American should be denied admission to school because of their race. As [...]
US State Department legal advisor Jennifer Newstead urged judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday to deny Iran’s request to order the US to suspend the re-imposition of sanctions by President Donald Trump in May. The first wave of US sanctions was imposed on Iran on August 7 with the rest of the [...]
