New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill granting authority to the New York Department of State to discipline real estate professionals who illegally discriminate based on race with suspension or revocation of their licenses. Bill S6874-A/A8903-A, signed Monday, authorizes the New York Secretary of State to revoke or suspend the real estate licenses [...]

A three judge panel for the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a 2016 lawsuit against the state of Maryland on Monday for strict gun control laws enacted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The suit was originally filed by a gun owners advocacy group, Maryland Shall Issue, two [...]

Canadian-American musician Neil Young sued President Donald Trump Tuesday for copyright infringement, saying that Trump used two of his songs, Rockin’ in the Free World and Devil’s Sidewalk, without permission during a campaign rally. The complaint alleges that President Trump’s re-election campaign “willfully ignored Plaintiff’s telling it not to play the Songs and willfully proceeded [...]

India Vice President Venkaiah Naidu expressed concern Tuesday over a backlog of cases at all levels of the country’s court system and urged judges to address the issue to ensure prompt adjudication. Naidu expressed his concerns as part of a speech that he gave at the Platinum Jubilee meeting of the 76th Foundation Day of the [...]

Multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi has been charged with manslaughter in France due to congenital disorders linked to its drug for epilepsy. The indictment filed Monday arose from four infants’ deaths from 1990 to 2014. The infants passed away after their mothers had taken the drug during their pregnancies. The court will now undertake an investigation [...]

The coronavirus epidemic has upended every aspect of our lives. For weeks, people have been stuck at home, unable to go to their jobs, see their friends, run errands, or even go outside. Most businesses are closed or offer only very limited service. The same is true of public services, some of which are limited, [...]

A US federal judge Tuesday extended three US welfare programs to the residents of Puerto Rico. The case, brought by nine low-income Puerto Ricans, examined the island’s access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Medicare Part D, which provides for prescription drug coverage. Although the US Congress granted citizenship to residents [...]

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has signed into law a bill to expand universal mail-in voting across the state as the US continues to feel the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and attempts to navigate upcoming elections. The bill, passed along party lines, directs election officials to mail a ballot to every active registered voter in [...]

20 Indian soldiers sacrificed their lives in a military face-off with China, igniting tensions along the Indo-China Line of Actual Control (“LAC”) in the Galwan Valley on the evening of June 15th. The clangour for economic sanctions is growing as strategic experts try to discern China’s Achilles heel, which India can exploit to put a [...]

I have never been prouder to be a member of the American Bar Association than today when the House of Delegates voted to stand with law students and recent law graduates to send an important message to state courts and bar examiners – it is simply not safe to give an in-person bar exam at [...]