Former Nissan Motor Co Ltd executive Greg Kelly pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he helped his former boss Carlos Ghosn hide tens of millions of dollars in income. Kelly’s trial began in Tokyo without Ghosn, who fled from Japan in December after being arrested by Japanese authorities in November 2018. Prosecutors in the [...]
A US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee report determined Wednesday that both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) were at fault in certifying and developing Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane, which killed 346 people. In March 2017 the FAA granted a certificate to Boeing for the 737 MAX airplane. Eighteen months later, in October 2018, [...]
A federal on Wednesday upheld Vermont Secretary of State James Condos’ directive permitting Vermont residents to utilize mail-in-voting for the November Election. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have altered the way in which citizens can vote. Vermont’s legislature, in accordance with Acts 91 and 135, authorized the Secretary of State to require [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld the Trump administration’s ability to proceed with implementing three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on the federal government’s labor and employee relations program. Trump signed Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839 in 2018, which related to federal labor-management relations. They dealt [...]
The Trump administration gave notice on Wednesday that it intends to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. In a unanimous decision last week, a three-judge panel blocked the president’s order to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census data to reapportion congressional seats. A [...]
Six months after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed by police in her home, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay her family a historic $12 million settlement. Introduced Tuesday, the settlement also contains a promise from the city to adopt police reforms, including mandatory safeguards and an early [...]
Justice H.R. Khanna from the Supreme Court of India once observed ‘Judges should not silence criticism with threat of Contempt of Court but should remove the weakness and drawback that crept into the judicial system.’ Administration of justice and upholding the majesty of law is undoubtedly a herculean task but not a cloistered virtue. Recently, [...]
A World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruled Tuesday that tariffs that US President Donald Trump has leveled against more than $200 billion worth of Chinese goods are inconsistent with certain provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. The trade dispute began in June 2018 when the US placed a 25 percent tariff on $34 [...]
A UN report published Wednesday accused Venezuelan state authorities, including the president, of being complicit in human rights violations and crimes “amounting to crimes against humanity.” The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela found cases of extrajudicial executions, disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture committed by the government or its agents. The [...]
On August 21, 2020, the Government of India announced the creation of the National Council for Transgender Persons (“Council”) to work towards the societal acceptance and improvement in the status of the transgender community. The Council is the country’s first step towards the realization of the objectives set out by the Transgender Persons (Protection of [...]
