US President Donald Trump has issued a memorandum that extends the current moratorium on offshore drilling on Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts. This memo also extended the moratorium to the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. Under the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, Florida’s gulf waters are protected from offshore drilling until 2022. [...]
The US Department of the Treasury (USDT) sanctioned Tuesday two former Lebanese government ministers, claiming they conspired with Hezbollah against the people of Lebanon. The USDT has accused Yusuf Finyanus, Lebanon’s former Minister of Public Transportation and Public Works (2016-2020), of trading political favors for hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hezbollah. These favors included [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision that Alcolac Inc. (Alcolac), an American chemical manufacturer, was not liable for injuries sustained by several former members of the US military as a result of their exposure to mustard gas during the Gulf War. In their suit, the former US military [...]
Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the Human Rights Commission of the UN, said in a press briefing Tuesday that the Saudi case on the “horrendous crime” of killing the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has lacked “proper transparency in the justice process.” Colville’s statements follow reports from Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on “extrajudicial, summary [...]
Judge Gregory Woods of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down a narrowing of the standard of “joint employer” by the Department of Labor (DOL) this Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed by the attorneys general of 17 states and Washington, DC, who argued that the narrowing of the standard [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of removal on Tuesday, removing a defamation case against President Donald Trump from New York State Court to the District Court of the Southern District of New York, and sought to swap the US government for Trump as the defendant in the case. The move is the latest [...]
The chair of the House Oversight Committee, Carolyn B. Maloney, announced Tuesday that she would be investigating claims that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy violated campaign finance laws. The announcement by Rep. Maloney came after a report by the Washington Post over the weekend alleged that, while DeJoy was the CEO of New Breed Logistics in North Carolina, he [...]
Several Pennsylvania bar exam applicants published a letter to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection Wednesday requesting an investigation into ExamSoft, the software being used to administer the upcoming October bar exam. The applicants expressed concerns that recent data breaches resulted from fundamental security flaws within the ExamSoft site. The applicants also allege that ExamSoft [...]
Eight Australian students filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the Australian Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley in an effort to “protect young people from the climate change impacts” of an Australian coal mine. The lawsuit comes ahead of the minister’s expected decision on whether to approve the development of a proposed open-cut coal mine, the [...]
“I tell you that I still consider myself to be an Indian. For the moment I have accepted the Governor-Generalship of Pakistan. But I am looking forward to a time when I would return to India and take my place as a citizen of my country.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Dec 1947 Karachi) Indians have [...]
