The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final decision Monday to maintain the existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for soot particulate matter for another five years, without changes. The Clean Air Act requires the agency to review and set NAAQS regulations for “pollutants that are common in outdoor air, considered harmful to [...]
A class-action lawsuit was filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Facebook, alleging that the social media giant engaged in anticompetitive behavior and exploited user data through deceptive practices. The lawsuit named two plaintiffs, Sarah Grabert and Maximilian Klein, who claim that Facebook has lied about its data [...]
A Nevada court Friday dismissed with prejudice a Trump campaign election contest lawsuit. In the suit, the president’s legal team alleged voter fraud in mail-in ballots, voter irregularities in provisional ballots, machine signature matching errors, in-person voter fraud and denial of legal voters, double voting, voter impersonation, late counted ballots, failures in voter roll maintenance, [...]
Egyptian prosecutors ordered the release Thursday of three human rights workers who had been arrested last month on terrorism-related charges. At the time of the release, it was unclear whether the release indicated that the charges had been dropped. However, Cairo’s Third Circuit Terrorism Court ordered on Sunday a temporary freeze of “all personal assets [...]
The US Supreme Court announced Friday that they have agreed to weigh in on the legality of the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire. The justices consolidated the cases of Azar v. Gresham and Arkansas v. Gresham for one hour of oral argument. Residents of Kentucky and Arkansas had [...]
Ted Hui, a former lawmaker from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp, said Sunday that he no longer had access to his Hong Kong bank account after having announced on Thursday that is seeking asylum status in the UK following a visit to Denmark. He recently resigned from Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party and is currently facing [...]
Justice Martin Jenkins was sworn in as an Associate Justice for the California Supreme Court on Friday, becoming the first openly gay man and the third African American man to serve as a justice on the California Supreme Court. Jenkins, a San Francisco native, was nominated by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 5 to fill [...]
The UK government announced Thursday that it had granted Pfizer legal indemnity protecting the American pharmaceutical company from civil lawsuits due to any unforeseen complications arising from problems with its COVID-19 vaccine. The special legal indemnity was the result of an emergency government consultation in September, when the UK Department of Health & Social Care [...]
The Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has reversed a recently implemented policy that sought to prohibit incarcerated people from purchasing physical copies of books or having physical books purchased on their behalf from pre-approved third parties. The ban lasted just over two weeks following strenuous online criticism, and was ended Wednesday. Warden Orlando [...]
A majority of members of the lower house of Tasmania’s parliament voted Saturday in favor of voluntary assisted dying legislation, the End-of-Life Choices Bill 2020. The legislation provides eligible persons access to voluntary assisted dying, “an efficient and effective process to enable them to exercise the chose to reduce their suffering by ending their lives [...]
