President Trump lodged a stunning claim in federal court last week when he filed suit against the Manhattan district attorney to halt a criminal investigation into hush-money payments that he made in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. The claim? That the President is absolutely immune from any criminal process, including a criminal investigation. In [...]
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry after reports surfaced that President Donald Trump called on a foreign power to intervene in the upcoming election. Press reports state that Trump asked his acting chief of staff to place a hold on $391 [...]
The General Court of the European Union on Tuesday struck down an order from the European Commission for Starbucks to pay €30m in back taxes to the Netherlands. The Netherlands entered into an advance pricing agreement (APA) with Starbucks in 2008, but the Commission later found in 2015 that the APA “constituted aid incompatible with [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland on Friday dismissed claims against § 1-212.1 of the Health Occupations Article of the Maryland Code banning sexual orientation conversion therapy on minors. Christopher Doyle, the plaintiff and a therapist, alleged that this ban violated his First Amendment rights to speech, to receive [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held Friday that the protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) apply to “all workers,” including those work in the marijuana industry. This case arose when a former employee sued Helix TCS, a company that provides security services for businesses in Colorado’s state sanctioned marijuana [...]
The European Court of Justice held on Tuesday that Google does not need to remove personal information upon request from versions of its search engine outside of the EU. “Right to be forgotten” laws, first passed by the EU in 2014 and expanded under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, allow a person [...]
The UK Supreme Court held on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament in early September was unlawful. Johnson moved to prorogue Parliament in early September, stating that the current term was one of the longest in recent history and that Parliament should be temporarily dismissed so that the government could develop a [...]
US President Donald Trump’s expanding crises with both North Korea and Iran, and his apparent willingness to withdraw from a second US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, are just some currently prominent examples of a longer standing problem with world politics and international law. This problem is the continuing US inclination to base American national security [...]
The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a 2018 act disallowing mandatory arbitration of workers’ legal claims. The bill, entitled the “Arbitration Fairness Act,” or the “The FAIR Act” for short, would prohibit employers from forcing their employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. Mandatory arbitration typically prevents employees from bringing [...]
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 15 other youth filed suit against five countries Monday, arguing that carbon pollution violates their rights under the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the right to life, health and peace. The respondents are Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey. In their legal brief the [...]
