The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld a 2009 Delhi High Court order that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) falls under the definition of “public authority” under the Right to Information Act (RTI). Therefore, plaintiff has the right to information under Section 2(j), in the form of declarations of assets [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied both applications for a stay of execution for Georgia death row in mate Ray Jefferson Cromartie. He was set to be executed by lethal injection at 7:00 PM on Wendesday but was delayed while the applications were considered; he was executed at 10:59 PM. Cromartie consistently maintained his [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into allegations that Myanmar has committed crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Myanmar is outside of the ICC’s jurisdiction, which is limited to those states that are a party to the Rome Statute treaty. However, its neighbor Bangladesh is a [...]

London’s high court on Wednesday granted Royal Mail an injunction preventing the first national postal strike in more than a decade. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) overwhelmingly voted last month in favor of action, with 97 percent of members voting in favor and a turnout of nearly 76 percent. The vote came in [...]

Public impeachment hearings in the inquiry into US President Donald Trump began Wednesday. Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff opened the first day of hearings by establishing the stakes of the investigation. Schiff began by calling Trump’s actions—seeking inquiries into political rival Joe Biden through the Ukrainian government—into question, stating, “If this is not impeachable conduct, what [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump’s petition for a rehearing en banc of his challenge of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s subpoena of his tax returns. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the appeals court had upheld a lower court’s ruling that [...]

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) Wednesday claiming that the WEC violated state law when it failed to deactivate approximately 234,000 voters.  These voters had been flagged as possibly relocated based on records from the Department of Motor Vehicles and the US Postal Service. [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed, in part, a decision barring two religious schools in Florida from conveying prayers over a loudspeaker before a state championship football game. In 2015 Cambridge Christian School and University Christian School faced off in the Division 2A State football game. The football game was [...]

The New Zealand Parliament voted Wednesday to send the End of Life Choice Bill to a public vote. The bill itself provides certain citizens with terminal illnesses the option to receive medical assistance in order to end their lives. There are a number of requirements that one must meet in order to be eligible to [...]

Scotland’s Court of Sessions, its highest civil court, ruled Wednesday to legalize lock-change evictions against failed asylum seekers. In this case, a failed asylum seeker tenant sued a landlord that evicted the asylum seeker by changing the locks on the rental unit without a court order. The landlord served the asylum seeker an eviction notice after [...]