Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Sunday confirming that the former president Alan García requested political asylum in the Uruguayan embassy just hours after a judge prohibited him from leaving the country. Garcia allegedly accepted bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for government contracts to build the Metro Line [...]
The Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled Monday that a law that criminalized failure to give notice to a municipality of a gathering of more than 15 people is unconstitutional. The court found that the law violated the guarantee of Section 17 of the Constitution that “veryone has the right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed Monday the district court judgement that Barclays is not liable to investors who bought in shortly before the 2008 financial collapse. A series of investors brought the case against Barclays as a class action suit in 2017 alleging that Barclays had a duty to disclose [...]
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced the commencement of production of lab-grown meat in the US. “The Agencies are today announcing agreement on a joint regulatory framework,” sais the release, “wherein FDA oversees cell collection, cell banks, and cell growth and differentiation. A transition from [...]
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday amended an opioids lawsuit adding Walgreens and CVS as defendants, alleging that both companies participated in creating an illegitimate demand for opioids while “unlawfully increasing the supply of opioids to meet that demand.” The lawsuit alleges that along with the other defendants, Walgreens and CVS collaborated in “unconscionable [...]
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled Friday that GPS trackers are not subject to state statutes on the execution of warrants. The majority found that Wisconsin Stat § 968.15 and 968.17(1), which require that any warrant for the search and seizure of property be conducted within five days of issuance and be returned to the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Sunday that Egyptian police and National Security Agency (NSA) have arrested more than 40 human rights activists, lawyers and political activists since late October. As many as 80 people may have been arrested, but so far only 40 names were able to be verified by HRW. No arrest warrants [...]
The Venezuelan justice department in-exile sent a “red notice” to INTERPOL requesting the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and a sentence of at least 18 years, three months in prison. The notice came with annexes including a physical description of Maduro and a statement of charges. The Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Venezuela in exile [...]
Lawyer Tom Goldstein on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to appoint Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as the acting Attorney General, replacing Matthew Whitaker. Goldstein claims that Whitaker was illegally installed as the temporary successor of former attorney general Jeff Sessions, and that Rosenstein is the legal and constitutional successor to Sessions. The motion argues [...]
US Secretary of Education Besty DeVos filed proposed amendments to Title IX Friday addressing campus sexual harassment and assault. Title IX originated in 1972 with the goal of reducing sexual discrimination in educational environments receiving federal funding. In 2011 the Obama administration expanded the scope of the law with guidance (known as the Dear Colleagues Letter) [...]
