Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Michel Bastarache on Thursday released a report on sexual harassment in the Canadian federal police force, the RCMP, that described its internal institutional culture as toxic, misogynistic and homophobic. After conducting interviews with RCMP members, Bastarache concluded that the force’s working environment was heavily sexualized. Many women were victims of [...]
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill on Friday which protects the home addresses and telephone numbers of judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers from public disclosure. The bill amends the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) to exclude the portion of any document which discloses the home address of any active or retired judge, [...]
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Saturday dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit that sought to invalidate nearly 7 million legally cast votes. This decision came on the same morning that a federal court in Georgia denied a similar attempt to disenfranchise voters. The Trump campaign brought their lawsuit in Pennsylvania [...]
The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it would delay oral argument in Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary, a case involving a dispute over censored information contained in the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The request to postpone the oral [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of California granted a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking new procedures and limitations for refugees seeking asylum from taking effect. The rule proposed by the Trump administration adds new bars to eligibility for asylum. It required that convictions modified, vacated, or clarified for rehabilitative purposes or made [...]
The United States Tax Court has upheld two different Internal Revenue Service (IRS) adjustments against Coca-Cola, increasing the company’s taxable income for the 2007-2009 years by a combined total of more than $9 billion and subjecting it to a tax bill of over $3 billion. The case decided Wednesday concerns methodology for reallocating profits between [...]
In a public statement released Friday, Amnesty International called on Polish police to put an end to its violent response to those protesting the Constitutional Tribunal’s recent tightening of abortion law. Amnesty expressed concern at a number of police practices employed in the wake of the controversial decision. Specifically, it condemed the use of pepper [...]
The number of young people awaiting trial and sentencing in England and Wales has doubled over the past year due to courts being temporarily closed due to Covid-19, according to a new report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. The report released Wednesday showed that there are concerns that children in prolonged uncertainty could be [...]
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lin Jian has denounced as “groundless” assertions in a recent Canadian national cyber threat assessment report that named China, as well as Iran, North Korea and Russia, as its greatest cyber-crime risks, fearing espionage and attacks on critical Canadian infrastructure. The report by the Canadian Communications Security Establishment [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that foreign military draft evaders could be entitled to asylum in the EU. In what was technically a preliminary ruling in an ongoing case, the court held that there was a “strong presumption” that people escaping military service in violent regimes were entitled to asylum, with evasion [...]
