The transitional government of Sudan and rebel groups on Saturday formalized a peace deal to end a years-long war that led to the death of hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. South Sudan hosted the ceremony where the transitional government and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of armed groups, signed the deal. The [...]

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday morning in the first two cases of the 2020 term. Initially scheduled for March and April, respectively, the arguments were postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The justices heard the oral arguments by phone to maintain social distancing protocols. John Carney, the Governor of Delaware and the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Sunday upheld the ban on detaining migrant children in hotel rooms before expelling them under rules adopted during COVID-19. Since March, border agents have placed 577 unaccompanied children in hotel rooms before deporting the children. The children were denied a chance for asylum or other [...]

In a dispute over who is entitled to almost USD $2 billion in gold warehoused at the Bank of England, the English Court of Appeal on Monday overturned an earlier High Court ruling on whom the UK officially recognizes as Venezuela’s president. The decision is the latest in a multi-year dispute as to who is [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied a petition for a writ of certiorari  filed by a former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who was sued for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. In the petition, Kim Davis’s lawyers argued that her refusal [...]

A federal judge halted new North Carolina absentee voting rules on Friday that would have extended ballot deadlines and loosened witness requirements. The new rules came about as part of a settlement made by a state judge that would allow ballots to arrive nine days past election day if post-marked on or before election day. [...]

The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court ruling that blocked its ban of WeChat. The administration is appealing the case from the Northern District of California to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal comes after the administration entered a request to stay the district court’s injunction that blocked the [...]

Colonel Stephen F. Keane, a US Marine judge, recused himself Friday from presiding over the 9/11 terrorism case, citing various conflicts of interest. The conflicts ranged from having relatives that lived in New York City on the day of the attacks to having served in a US counter-terrorism unit. Keane also specified having provided legal [...]

The Open Society Justice Initiative and four prominent law professors filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the Trump administration’s executive order that imposes sanctions on persons associated with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Created under the Rome Statute in 2002, the ICC is authorized to [...]

A US federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump overstepped his authority when he suspended the issuance of certain types of work visas amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge Jeffrey S. White of the US District Court of Northern California granted a preliminary injunction in favor of several associations (Intrax, Inc, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US [...]