A California appeals court on Monday upheld an $86 million verdict against The Monsanto Company, a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical and life sciences company, Bayer AG. The decision comes amidst a number of lawsuits filed against Monsanto, which Bayer inherited as the parent company. The suit was filed in 2019 by a couple, Alberta and Alva [...]
The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care & Rehabilitation) Bill, (2021), is expected to be tabled during the monsoon parliamentary session. The initial Bill was approved by the Lower House of the Parliament in 2018; however, it was never presented in the Upper House. The 2018 proposal deals with human trafficking, as well as rescue safety [...]
The Higher People’s Court of Liaoning (“appellate court”) in China on Tuesday upheld Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s death sentence for methamphetamine smuggling. Initially, the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Schellenberg to 15 years in prison for smuggling drugs. On Schellenberg’s appeal, the appellate court remanded the case for retrial concluding that the punishment was [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday upheld a New Jersey state law enforcement directive limiting local police interactions with, and/or barring its cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Former New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal passed Law Enforcement Directive 2018-6, also called the Immigrant Trust Directive (“the Directive”), in November 2018 to [...]
The UK on Monday imposed tighter sanctions on Belarus in a bid to repress its totalitarian regime. The sanctions, which were effected by an amendment to the Republic of Belarus(sanctions)(EU Exit) Regulations 2019, include aviation, trade, and economic measures. These sanctions are subsequent to a joint designation imposed in June this year by the UK, [...]
Dominion Voting Systems filed defamation lawsuits Tuesday against One America News Network (OAN), Newsmax Media, and Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com, for allegedly engaging in spreading misinformation about the role of Dominion Voting System in the US 2020 general election. The lawsuits against One America News Network and Patrick Byrne were filed in the [...]
A US federal judge ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must update its policy on the use of toxic chemical dispersants to clean up oil spills. The guidance detailed in the National Contingency Plan (NCP) has not been updated since it was published in 1994, and environmentalists have been petitioning to update the [...]
The Central Government of India introduced Monday a bill that would empower state governments to specify socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs) in the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 proposes to amend Article 342A of the Constitution of India, which gives the power to specify [...]
Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (APIB) filed a statement before the International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday requesting an investigation into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro. The complaint centres on “systematic and anti-indigenous” social and environmental policies enacted by Bolsonaro since his term began in January 2019, exasperated during the [...]
The Biden administration issued an executive order Monday blocking the property of individuals contributing to the authoritarian regime in Belarus. The order expands on a prior executive order from June of 2006. It draws its legitimacy from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, National Emergency Act the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and Section [...]
