West Virginia Governor Jim Justice on Wednesday signed House Bill 2538, which regulates handling of funds in conjunction with the state’s medical cannabis program authorized by the Medical Cannabis Act. The bill allows the State Treasurer to select one or more financial institutions to provide banking services for the fees, penalties and taxes collected under the [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Brunei to halt plans to introduce “vicious” new punishments such as death by stoning for same-sex acts and amputation for robbery, set to take effect next week. Amnesty has previously expressed concerns over changes to the Penal Code when they were proposed in 2014 and is currently calling on [...]
EU parliament on Tuesday approved new rules to create a Europe-wide market for electricity that is cleaner, more competitive and better able to cope with risks. The Clean Energy for All Europeans package empowers European consumers to become active players in the energy transition and creates the first national energy and climate plans. Among its [...]
A letter signed by 44 organizations was sent to members of the European Parliament on Monday urging them to vote to exclude fossil fuel infrastructure funding from the upcoming European Union Cohesion Policy. The vote for the Cohesion Plan will occur on Wednesday. The European Commission has proposed net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. If [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled Monday that a law preventing abortions after 20 weeks is unconstitutional. Before this ruling, the statute made allowances for abortions after 20 weeks only if a substantial risk “threaten the life or gravely impair the health of the woman.” US District [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to release former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from detention for eight weeks to seek proper medical treatment. The court granted his request, saying the medical records and Sharif’s health history show he is in need of greater medical treatment. The Additional Prosecutor-General opposed the request, saying Sharif is [...]
US Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday rejected a request by gun rights group for an emergency stay of the bump stock ban put in place by the Trump administration. Bump stocks came to public attention in 2017 after 58 concertgoers were killed in the Las Vegas shooting in which the killer used bump stocks attached to assault [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in two partisan gerrymandering cases. The first, Rucho v. Common Cause, asks the court whether North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map is unconstitutional, as the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina found. The district court first found that the issue over the map was [...]
A Belgrade appeals court published a decision on Tuesday in which it annulled Mirjana Markovic’s one-year prison sentence and sent the case back for retrial. Mirjana Markovic is a former leader of the Yugoslav left party and widow of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. In 2000 Markovic was accused of abuse against official duty, as [...]
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington granted an injunction on Tuesday blocking specific language that requires Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to obtain legislative approval before settling cases. The ruling marks the second legal blockade to a set of laws passed by GOP lawmakers in a lame-duck session late last year that curtail powers of [...]
