New York state Judge Saliann Scarpulla on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Donald J. Trump Foundation has, for years, conducted business illegally and abusively, including misuse of charitable assets and self dealing. The lawsuit was brought by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood. Trump sought to have the [...]
It’s not just about the 2012 Magnitsky Act. President Donald Trump’s recent affirmation of support for Saudi Arabia–even with incontrovertible evidence of Saudi criminality in the Jamal Khashoggi murder–reflects willful indifference to much wider sources of pertinent law. Both international law and the laws of the United States were flagrantly violated by this official American [...]
On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Social Security Administration, declaring that it unfairly ruled against a number of individuals who claimed disability benefits and had received those benefits while represented by a lawyer who was later convicted of fraud. Eric Conn, a Kentucky lawyer that specialized in Social Security claims, [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that the Austrian government must give the same social security benefits to refugees as it does to its residents. The case came from action brought by Ahmad Shah Ayubi who had been granted refugee status in 2016 with a temporary residence permit for three years. Ayubi filed [...]
A group of thirteen United States government agencies led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a landmark study of the effects of climate change on Friday, describing the economic impact that the rapid rise in global temperatures will have over the next century. The Fourth National Climate Assessment is the latest in [...]
The Supreme Court of Arizona ruled on Wednesday that petition circulators must appear before the court when they are subpoenaed. This decision was made in the context of a failed attempt to qualify initiative C-03-2018 for inclusion onto the November 2018 ballot. This initiative was commonly known as the “Stop Political Dirty Money Amendment.” In [...]
A district court in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Tuesday handed the death penalty to a man convicted of participating in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. This is the first death sentence to be awarded in any case related to the 1984 violence, which saw 3,000 Sikhs killed across northern India in the aftermath [...]
Amid the perpetual political tension between India and Pakistan, the Indus water treaty (IWT) is perhaps the only international instrument which has proactively engaged both the countries in bilateral relationship. In fact, the treaty has been the most significant confidence building measure between India and Pakistan since 1960. Despite multiple wars and hostilities between the [...]
Chief Justice of the US John Roberts on Wednesday released a statement in response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of a judge who ruled against the president’s asylum restrictions. On Tuesday, a federal judge in California temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule to deny asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday dismissed the case against Jumana Nagarwala, a doctor accused of performing female genital mutilation on at least 9 girls, finding the federal ban unconstitutional. The government brought this case against the doctor and seven other defendants including three additional medical [...]
