A federal judge entered an order on Monday allowing various banks to release confidential information to the Warmbier family about several frozen North Korean accounts to aid the family with collecting on a $500 million judgment for the 2017 death of Otto Warmbier. North Korea was found liable in December 2018 for the torture, hostage-taking, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday reversed and remanded a decision by the State Department rejecting an intersex passport application. The State Department has historically applied a binary approach to identifying passport applicants based on their sex. In getting approved for a passport, everyone must be classified as either male [...]

Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania Wednesday due to the COVID-19 pandemic following a request by his attorney Kevin Downing. Manafort was convicted of five charges of tax fraud, two of bank fraud, and one of failure to disclose a foreign bank account in [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued a preliminary injunction Monday barring the Small Business Administration from enforcing a rule preventing “sexually oriented businesses that present entertainment or sell products of a ‘prurient’ (but not unlawful) nature,” from receiving emergency federal loans. The rule also prevents banks, certain [...]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director and member of the White House coronavirus task force, warned senators on Tuesday that states must approach lifting COVID-19 precautions carefully or face unmanageable spikes in cases of the virus. Fauci opened his remarks during the Senate hearing by highlighting his concerns: [...]

In a lawsuit filed on Monday, several community colleges in California alleged that community college restrictions on COVID-19 aid violate the Constitution and exclude more than half of all of the students in the California community college system, “including many identified as economically disadvantaged.” The CARES Act allocated 580 million dollars to aid community colleges [...]

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council ordered courts on Sunday to release all protesters jailed since anti–government demonstrations erupted last October. The Council cited Article 38 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to protest so long as demonstrations do not involve acts “contrary to the law” or otherwise violate the Constitution. This statement comes days after [...]

“There is a view point that post retirement appointment is itself a scar on the judicial independence of the Judiciary. In fact this is valid and strong point.” – former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi This was the obiter dicta of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi while hearing 18 petitions related to challenges to [...]

The spread of COVID-19 infection cases has accelerated with fervid intensity over the past few weeks, with the tally of infections reported by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) at a whopping 4,254,302 cases (as of May 12, 2020). India itself, battling with an infection rate doubling every [...]

The Coronavirus is causing major economic upheavals and thousands of deaths and hospitalizations throughout the US. Unfortunately, immigrants, people of color, and marginalized groups are being hit equally hard by the disease. To make matters even worse, refugee admissions are suspended, all in-person naturalization services have stopped, and the status of all immigration into the [...]