The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Louisiana abortion law “requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within thirty miles of the clinic where they perform abortions.” The court contrasted the Louisiana law, Unsafe Abortion Protection Act , with the US Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Whole [...]
A judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday that homeless groups may pursue a class action lawsuit against the city of Berkeley, California. Plaintiffs, who identify themselves as members of the homeless activist group “First They Came for the Homeless” (FTCftH), filed suit against the city of Berkeley [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday calling for the US Senate to halt its confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court after a third accuser came forward, alleging Kavanaugh was present when she was sexually assaulted in 1982. “With so much uncertainty about these allegations, the Senate should not be scheduling even [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that Justice Department (DOJ) official John Gore must sit for questioning by attorneys over lawsuits stemming from the introduction of a citizenship question his department requested for the 2020 census. The Trump administration is currently facing a number of lawsuits filed by several states [...]
Yemen war crime investigators on Tuesday asked the UN Human Rights Council to renew their mandate and allow the continued inquiry into Yemen’s “extremely alarming” conflict. The Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen , in their initial report published in August, found evidence “that members of the Saudi-led coalition, the Yemeni government, and the Houthi armed [...]
Ion Ficior, a former Romanian prison chief who was sentenced to 20 years for crimes against humanity, died in jail on Wednesday at the age of 90. Ficior was charged with the deaths of 103 political prisoners during his time as commander of the Periprava work camp during the communist ruling. Charges were filed in [...]
The German Bishops Conference released a study on Tuesday, which found allegations of sexual abuse of minors by 1,670 clerics of the Catholic Church in Germany between 1946 and 2014. The number of clerics represents 4.4 percent of all of the clerics in Germany in that time frame. The reports specifies that the number is [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld in-part the constitutionality of the world’s largest biometric database system, which contains personal information of more than a billion Indians, saying the benefits of the system outweigh the costs to individual freedoms. The system is called the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). The court explained the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Uber Technologies Inc. can require arbitration in a lawsuit brought by former and current Uber drivers over Uber’s classification of the drivers as independent contractors. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the arbitration agreements were unenforceable because the lead plaintiffs opted out of arbitration [...]
The number of violent crimes in the US dropped by 0.7 percent and property crimes dropped by 3 percent, according to the FBI’s 2017 crime statistics released Monday. Violent crimes include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property crimes includes offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. The report reflects data [...]
