New Zealand Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis ordered an overhaul of women’s prisons in the country on Sunday. Davis’ move specifically targets processes, the complaints system and management of female prisoners. The aim is to fulfill the purposes of Hōkai Rangi, a strategy released by the Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2019, which prioritizes wellbeing [...]
A jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decided Friday that Apple Inc. must pay $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications (PMC) for infringing upon a digital rights management patent. PMC is a patent-licensing company which currently has more than 100 issued patents and pending applications. The company only licenses [...]
A UN human rights expert called on Colombia Friday to dismantle criminal networks and corruption in Buenaventura, where civilians have been greatly impacted by fighting between Colombian armed groups. Buenaventura has a population of 432,000. Over the past decade, human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have reported the forced displacement of thousands of [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. In August 2020 the First Circuit reversed Tsarnaev’s convictions on three charges of carrying a firearm during crimes of violence and remanded the case on the question of whether [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday unsealed a federal criminal complaint charging 10 Iranian nationals with conspiracy to evade US sanctions on Tehran. The complaint, which was filed on October 16 in the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that the 10 people disguised more than $300 million worth [...]
El viernes, un tribunal mexicano emitió una suspensión definitiva contra la nueva ley de electricidad que apunta a fortalecer a la estatal Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). La ley cuenta con el apoyo del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, quien quiere incrementar el control estatal del mercado energético. El presidente López Obrador afirmó que bajo [...]
España legalizó el jueves la eutanasia para personas gravemente enfermas o enfermas con una enfermedad incurable. El proyecto de ley fue aprobado con 202 votos a favor y 141 en contra. Se define como gravemente enfermo a alguien que se ve afectado por su enfermedad en la medida en que afecta sus capacidades físicas o [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit on Friday brought by Oregon ranchers which would have prevented the Klamath Tribes from exercising their water rights when they interfere with Oregon ranchers’ irrigation. The district court originally dismissed the ranchers’ lawsuit for lack of standing under Article [...]
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it will streamline the process of determining eligibility for student loan forgiveness for borrowers with claims that their institutions engaged in misconduct. The Department expects to receive $1 billion in loan cancelation requests to help approximately 72,000 students. Forgiveness under the borrower defense to repayment provision is [...]
Turkey withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, popularly known as the Istanbul Convention, by a presidential decree announced in the official gazette early Saturday. The Istanbul Convention seeks to “protect women against all forms of violence, and prevent, prosecute and eliminate violence against women and domestic violence.” It [...]
