The Canadian government announced Friday that four new terrorist entities had been added to its terror list, three of which are associated with far-right extremist ideology. US-based Three Percenters militia, Aryan Strikeforce and American neo-Nazi James Mason were each said to have met the legal threshold for listing as set out in Canada’s Criminal Code, [...]

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Derek Chauvin on Friday to 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in April 2021. Prosecutors successfully argued that a harsher sentence needed to be handed down due [...]

President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday honoring the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting and designating the nightclub as the National Pulse Memorial. In June 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the popular nightclub located in Orlando, Florida. The gunman used an AR-15-style rifle and a pistol. The mass [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday a new lawsuit against the state of Georgia, alleging the state’s new voting law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Georgia’s new voting law, passed in March 2021, restricts voting in a number of ways. The law makes it harder for individuals to receive an [...]

On Thursday, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that China has filed a complaint against Australia in the WTO. China’s WTO complaint concerns anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed by Australia on Chinese railway wheels, wind towers and stainless steel sinks. This is the latest stage of an escalating trade conflict between Australia and China. In recent years, [...]

The UK Supreme Court delivered a judgement on Friday which overturned the convictions of four defendants who blockaded an East London arms fair. The main legal question before the Court concerned the relationship of criminal law with the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly, as covered by Articles 10 and 11 [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6-3 ruling on Friday that small oil refineries that received an exemption from the Renewable Fuel Program (RFP) could continue to receive extensions of that exemption even if they had a lapse in the exemption the previous year. The RFP requires most domestic refiners to blend certain amounts [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling held that Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) are eligible to receive some of the $8 billion made available to Native American tribes by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. ANCs are companies created by Congress in 1971 and owned by Alaska Natives. In [...]

The European Parliament on Thursday officially endorsed the Climate Law (also known as the European Green Deal), with member states voting 442-203 to transform the legislation’s political commitment into a legal one. The law “gives European citizens and businesses the legal certainty and predictability they need to plan for the transition to climate neutrality,” according [...]

The Stockholm Administrative Court on Tuesday upheld a 5G equipment sales ban against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies. The Swedish telecom regulator, the Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), had banned the company and its Chinese counterpart, Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation (ZTE), in October last year citing security concerns raised by the Swedish intelligence services. PTS [...]