The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe on Tuesday filed suit against the state of North Dakota to ensure that eligible Native American voters residing on reservations in North Dakota will be able to cast a ballot in the 2018 midterm elections and in all future elections. Under current law, North Dakotans cannot vote unless they have [...]
A judge for the US District Court Southern District of Ohio ruled Tuesday that a judge could not be sued for denying name changes for transgender minors. Stephanie and Kylen Whitaker sued Judge Joseph Kirby when he refused to approve a name change for their transgender child. Ohio law requires that name changes be approved by [...]
The Supreme Court of Hawaii on Tuesday cleared the way for astronomers to build one of the largest telescopes in the world on Mauna Kea by dismissing a legal challenge of native Hawaiians aimed at blocking the project. Justice McKenna, writing for the court’s majority in the 4-1 decision, dismissed the appellant’s claims that “Mauna Kea, as [...]
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) extended the comment period on Tuesday for a proposed standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. The comment period was extended from 60 days to 90 days, now ending on December 13, 2018. The extension came after the NLRB received requests from Representative Robert C. Scott [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday overturned the 2010 blasphemy conviction and death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman, for failure to proffer enough evidence that Bibi indeed committed the crime. The court’s decision rested on Pakistan’s Constitution and a 2016 decision in which the court emphasized that the state is “to ensure that [...]
UN human rights experts on Monday urged Saudi Arabia to halt its executions on offenders who were minors when they committed their crimes. “Death penalty sentences and executions for crimes committed by persons below the age of 18 at the time of the offence run contrary to international law and standards,” said the experts. “Children [...]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has passed a law on Tuesday to curtail money laundering and terrorism financing. The development was reported by the government-run WAM news station. The law, known as Federal Decree No. 20 of 2018, seeks to strengthen the UAE’s legal framework by supporting the relevant agencies and better equipping them to detect [...]
The German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a judgment published Tuesday that the wife of a mother is not automatically deemed the legal co-parent of a newborn child, finding that the paternity law of the German Civil Code only applies to male-female couples. The matter at hand involves a same-sex couple who had been in [...]
The blaming of attempted bombings of prominent democratic leaders and opponents of President Trump on a vindictive press by him at a public rally casts a dark shadow over a bleak landscape where once the freedom of the press was a corner stone of our democracy. Declaring the press in the United States an “enemy [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) on Tuesday over a new policy that requires that only photocopies of incoming mail be delivered to inmates instead of the original copies. The ACLU-PA is joined by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) [...]
