The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. The case challenges union power in California’s nearly $50 billion agricultural industry by questioning a regulation that allows union organizers access to agricultural businesses. For three hours a day, 120 days a year, union organizers may meet with agricultural employees at their workplaces [...]

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled on Saturday that Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to suspend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The Supreme Court decided in June that the Trump administration could not end the DACA program that provided temporary [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced concern about the increased violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, indicating that such violence may amount to war crimes. On November 4 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) to quell the Tigray Regional Paramilitary Police and other militia loyal to the Tigray [...]

The European Commission presented its first strategy on Thursday to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) equality, proposing to extend the list of EU crimes to cover hate crime and ensure that EU policymaking reflects LGBTIQ concerns. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the plan in her 2020 State of [...]

The UK House of Commons Justice Committee released a report Thursday recommending that the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales be reviewed. Currently children in England and Wales can be arrested and charged with a crime from the age of 10. Under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019, the age of [...]

The law firm representing President Trump on Friday withdrew from Trump’s campaign to block Joe Biden from winning the popular vote in Pennsylvania. The attorneys at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur filed an overnight motion to withdraw, leaving solo practitioner Linda A. Kearns to work on the case. “Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a [...]

Supreme Court Justice Alito gave a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual National Lawyers Convention on Thursday in which he declared that “religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right.” The theme of the convention was the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the rule of law, and Justice Alito said the pandemic [...]

Sixteen federal prosecutors sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Friday, urging him to withdraw a recent memo about post-voting election irregularities. The memo, which was sent to U.S. attorneys on Monday, authorized them “to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in your jurisdictions.” [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for the protection of civilians in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Friday, after reports of an “increasingly alarming human rights situation.” Insurgents captured the district of Muidumbe in Cabo Delgado last week, causing thousands to flee. Bachelet described the human rights situation as “desperate” for many. The international humanitarian law [...]

Michigan Judge Timothy M. Kenny denied an attempt Friday to enjoin the Wayne County Board of Canvassers from certifying its US presidential election results and refused to order an independent audit of those results. Two individuals sued the City of Detroit and its election commission for alleged widespread voter fraud at the TCF Center after President-elect [...]