A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Wednesday dismissed the state of Michigan and Governor Rick Snyder from a class action lawsuit concerning injuries resulting from the Flint water crisis, saying the government officials are given sovereign immunity. Under the Eleventh Amendment, state governments and officials, acting in their [...]
Iraqi judges routinely disregard allegations of torture by security forces against terrorism suspects and accept convictions credibly claimed to be the result of such tactics, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. “Torture is rampant in Iraq’s justice system, yet judges lack instructions for responding to torture allegations,” said HRW deputy Middle East director Lama Fakih. The [...]
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order to end federal grant funding to sanctuary cities. Executive Order 13,768, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” directed the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to withhold [...]
A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking a Texas man from releasing downloadable blueprints for plastic 3D-printed firearms. Judge Robert Lasnik of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington issued the ruling a day after the Washington Attorney General, along with several other states, filed a lawsuit challenging the [...]
The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort began on Tuesday. The indictment alleges that Manafort and Richard Gates, a former deputy chair of the Trump campaign and liaison to the Republican National Committee who has already plead guilty to the charges, acted as unregistered agents of Ukraine and Victor Yanukovyk, the President of [...]
The UK Supreme Court ruled Monday that in cases where a patient is in a permanent vegetative state , the patient may be taken off life support, including feeding tubes, without court approval if both the relatives and the doctors are in agreement. The UK Court of Protection will still issue a ruling in cases where the relatives and doctors [...]
The US Supreme Court rejected a petition from the US Solicitor General requesting an administrative stay of an environmental lawsuit regarding climate change. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court District of Oregon by a group of individuals between the ages of eight and 19, alleges that US policies over the past 50 years [...]
The Serbian Bar Association and the Bar Association of Belgrade announced a week-long strike starting July 30 in response to the killing of prominent criminal defense lawyer Dragoslav Miše Ognjanović. Ognjanović served on the war crimes defense team of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in the early 2000s. He was also involved in a number [...]
In the United States District Court in Kansas City, a lawsuit was filed Sunday over the July 19 Duck Boat accident in Branson, Missouri that killed 17. The families who brought the suit are seeking $100 million in damages. The lawsuit alleges that the boat operators knew there were unsafe weather conditions for bringing the boat [...]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit on Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunction to block the company Defense Distributed from providing an online template download of 3D printed gun files for the general public. The company agreed [...]
