Long-time Trump associate and former campaign adviser Roger Stone pleaded not guilty in a federal DC court on Tuesday. Stone appeared in front of Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson following his arrest by the FBI on Friday. Stone has been charged with obstruction of a proceeding, witness tampering and making false statements to House Representatives regarding his involvement in WikiLeaks’ publication of stolen [...]
As US immigration courts opened on Monday to the 86,000 cases that were canceled during the shutdown, attorneys speculatde that it could take years to get through this backlog. As of the end of November, it was estimated that there were more than 800,000 cases pending before the immigration courts. Jennifer Williams, an immigration law [...]
ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit civil rights law firm in St. Louis, Missouri, brought a class action lawsuit Monday for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and due process, alleging that current policies and practices in St. Louis jail individuals based on poverty. The suit was brought on behalf of David Dixon, Jeffrey Rozelle, [...]
A federal judge in Virginia on Monday delayed sentencing for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort due to his pending trial in the District of Columbia. Manafort was convicted of eight charges of fraud in August by a jury in Virginia and was set to be sentenced next week. However, District Judge TS Ellis III [...]
A federal judge denied primary approval on Monday for a proposed settlement in a class action breach lawsuit against Yahoo, citing a continued lack of transparency. Yahoo was subject to three data breaches between 2013 and 2016. These breaches occurred due to Yahoo’s failure to use “appropriate safeguards to protect users’ personal identification information,” and [...]
A senior judge at one of the UN courts in The Hague is reportedly resigning over “shocking” political interference from the White House and Turkey. Christoph Flügge, a German judge, claims that the US had threatened other judges who took steps to investigate the conduct of US soldiers in Afghanistan. He also claims that Turkey [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday upheld the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy. The court overturned her 2010 blasphemy conviction and death sentence in October for failure to proffer enough evidence that Bibi indeed committed the crime. The review petition was filed by [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it filed several criminal charges against Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., and its affiliates, Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Device Co. USA. The grand jury returned the indictment on January 16, charging the defendants with several counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud, various conspiracy [...]
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) on Monday published an evaluation report urging Poland to promote greater transparency among persons exercising top executive functions. According to the report, 58 percent of Poles consider corruption widespread. Cases of integrity issues concerning both the police and senior government officials have been reported at [...]
India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was held to be constitutionally valid in its “entirety” on Friday. A Supreme Court bench comprising judges Rohinton Nariman and Navin Sinha ruled that the code, which seeks to consolidate and amend the laws relating to insolvency and bankruptcy, is in consonance with the fundamental rights guaranteed under the country’s [...]
