Bangladesh’s High Court, the lower division of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday directed trial courts in the country to conclude proceedings in drug-related cases promptly. It instructed lower courts in the country to finish proceedings within six months and also ordered senior police officials such as the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to monitor [...]
Members of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives and Senate sent memos to legislative members on Monday calling for action to prevent the premature closures of the Three Mile Island and Beaver Valley nuclear power plants. The memos call for the state to recognize nuclear power plants for their “significant contribution to this state’s zero-carbon energy production.” [...]
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr. filed a petition with the US Supreme Court Monday asking the court to determine whether the state’s law requiring an ultrasound be performed at least 18 hours before receiving an abortion is constitutional. In 2016 the Indiana General Assembly enacted House Enrolled Act 1337, imposing strict limits on medical [...]
Multiple civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against Texas over voter suppression. The groups claim that an advisory sent out to thousands of voters for citizen review discriminates against naturalized citizens. They allege that the government erroneously flagged naturalized citizens for citizenship review who remain eligible to vote. The list of voters who were [...]
A judge for the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered a March 13 sentencing date for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A Virginia jury convicted Manafort of eight charges of fraud in August. His original sentencing date was set for this week, until US District Judge TS Ellis III delayed sentencing last week due to Manafort’s [...]
An Abuja tribunal announced Monday that Nigerian chief justice Walter Onnoghen is ordered to appear in the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on February 13. Last week, the CCT dismissed a request by the chief judge to halt the proceedings on the alleged false declaration of assets. Chairman of the tribunal Danladi Umar stated, “The defendant [...]
Before January 15th, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to have every 2020 Census respondent answer a question about citizenship (for the first time in sixty years) lived as either a story of bureaucratic and political intrigue or a high-profile case on the Supreme Court’s docket. The bureaucratic-intrigue focus would have included a chain of events [...]
The US Senate Finance Committee on Monday invited seven major pharmaceutical companies to the second in a series of hearings exploring the high prices of prescription drugs. Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Ron Wyden sent the invitations to AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Pfizer and Sanofi. Some of those companies were [...]
Texas District Judge Karen Pozza on Monday denied a motion for summary judgement, allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Academy Sports and Outdoors, where a Devin Kelley bought the gun used in the Southerland Springs church shooting. The main issue in this case is whether the definition of a firearm includes the magazine that the [...]
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday granted review and invited the submission of briefs regarding whether the agency can exercise jurisdiction over charter schools under Section 14(c)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The outcome could alter previous decisions by NLRB in two 2016 cases, involving Hyde Leadership Charter School, in Brooklyn, New York, and Pennsylvania [...]
