The California Legislature on Monday approved a bill BSB-1127] that would allow California students to use medical marijuana on school campuses. California state law has allowed minors access to medical marijuana since the 1990s but so far has prevented school campuses from permitting usage. Parents would have to take their children off school grounds in [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia , ruled Saturday that portions of President Donald Trump’s May 25 executive orders making it easier to fire federal employees overstepped his authority as president. The first amended collective bargaining procedures in federal employment. The second limited the amount of time federal employees can engage in union activities at [...]
Amnesty International (AI) called upon countries to ban fully autonomous weapons systems on Monday, the first day of the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems meeting. AI states that technology related to advanced weapons systems are outpacing international law. Future technologies may be able to replicate [...]
The International Court of Justice heard oral arguments from Iran’s legal counsel on Monday in a lawsuit filed by Iran allegint that US sanctions violate the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights. Oral arguments from the US are expected on Tuesday. Iran argues that the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has stated that [...]
A federal judge in Seattle decided Monday to extend a preliminary injunction effectively forbidding a Texan gun-rights activist from publishing plans for untraceable 3D printed firearms. The injunction prevents the federal government from implementing a settlement agreement it had reached in June with Cody Wilson, the activist who intended to publish the plans, that would [...]
Since the 1960s, most plaintiffs challenging state restrictions on voting rights have relied primarily on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The 1966 case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in particular played a key role in the rise of equal protection claims by aggrieved voters. In Harper the U.S. Supreme Court [...]
US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US and Mexico have reached an agreement on a new trade deal called the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement, which will ultimately terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While sitting at the resolute desk, Trump called Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to announce the new deal, which [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged in a report released Monday the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military generals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Mission “found patterns of gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States that ‘undoubtedly amount to the gravest [...]
The Internet Association , along with a number of other trade groups, filed a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday urging the court to reinstate net neutrality rules. The brief was filed in support of the petitioners, one of which is Mozilla Corporation, who filed suit against the [...]
Former South Korean president Park Geun-Hye was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday by the Seoul High Court in connection with corruption charges and bribes from companies such as Samsung. This ruling extends the former president’s prison sentence by an additional year and increases Park’s fines by 2 billion won for a total [...]
