The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled Monday that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 (PLCAA), a federal gun industry protection law, is unconstitutional. In 2016 a 13-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed by his friend when the friend mistakenly believed that a gun was unloaded. The boy’s parents sued Springfield Armory, [...]

Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced Tuesday that after reviewing the evidence against 15 British soldiers suspected of killing civilians in Derry on “Bloody Sunday,” January 30, 1972, they will maintain the decision not to pursue prosecution. Tuesday’s decision, announced in a statement from the PPS, upholds an earlier decision from March 2019. The [...]

Ridesharing giant Uber prevailed in an English court case on Monday, obtaining a license to continue operating in London that had previously been denied by the city’s transportation authority. Transport for London (TfL), the governmental entity responsible for regulating transportation in the London metropolitan area, refused to renew Uber’s taxi service license in September 2017. [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday allowing the state to manufacture its own generic prescription drugs in order to lower the cost of prescription drugs. The law, California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020, will require California’s Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) to partner with drug manufactures to produce and/or distribute [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered preliminary injunctions Sunday and Monday against the US Postal Service (USPS) to prevent policy changes that have delayed national mail delivery. Following a similar ruling by a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday, the injunction by Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, DC, marks the [...]

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, along with 70 lawmakers, proposed new legislation Monday that would require individuals and organizations to register as “foreign agents” if they receive money from outside of Nicaragua. Critics of the proposed law on regulation of foreign agents say that this is an attempt by Ortega to control the media and prevent [...]

Armenia lodged a request with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Monday seeking interim measures against Azerbaijan following military clashes over the weekend. The request sets out three specific interim measures. Armenia is requesting that the ECHR direct Azerbaijan: to cease the military attacks towards the civilian settlements along the entire line of contact [...]

Judge Gerald McHugh of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction Monday, enjoining the US Postal Service (USPS) from making service restrictions ahead of the November election. Because of COVID-19, many states have sought to facilitate mail-in voting. A record number of voters are expected to vote by [...]

Human rights organization Amnesty International announced Tuesday that it is ceasing its work in India due to the complete freeze of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Indian government. On September 10 the organization was alerted that all of its bank accounts were frozen by the Ministry of Finance’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) because of [...]

Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to block a ruling from the state’s Supreme Court allowing mail-in ballots received three days after November 3 to be counted if they are postmarked on that day. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in June challenging several aspects of the state’s [...]