The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held  Tuesday that a Catholic-run German hospital was discriminatory in its dismissal of a Catholic doctor that had recently remarried. The head doctor of the clinic lost his job at the Catholic St. Vinzenz Hospital in Düsseldorf in 2009 after divorcing his wife and subsequently marrying a new partner in [...]

A judge for the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Third Judicial District at Anchorage issued a restraining order on Monday preventing the state from removing political signs in view of, but outside, the state’s right of way. The order comes in response to a legal challenge filed  by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska (ACLU) , [...]

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich  filed  an action  in Pima County Superior Court  on Monday alleging that Purdue Pharma  continued deceptive and misleading marketing practices to sell opioids in violation of a 2007 court order. Brnovich filed the application for order to show cause requesting the court to order Purdue Pharma to appear and give reason why [...]

The Superior Court of Justice of Ontario ruled  Monday that the Better Local Government Act, 2018 , which decreased the number of city wards and councilors in Toronto from 47 to 25, was unconstitutional. The law was enacted on August 14 and took effect immediately. The election period for the city had begun on May 1, [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday criticized the confirmation of 75 deaths sentences by the Cairo Criminal Court in Egypt, deeming the cdecision “a gross and irreversible miscarriage of justice.” According to rights groups, the sentences are part of an unprecedented crackdown by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi‘s government, who promised during his [...]

A Russian rights group on Monday reported  that more than 1,000 people were detained at anti-government protests across the nation. The OVD-Info group , which tracks police detentions, said that 1,018 people were detained during multiple Sunday demonstrations against Russian pension reform that plans to increase the ages at which citizens can collect their state [...]

Very conspicuously, Israel’s Palestinian foes regard “martyrdom” as among the highest expressions of religious sacredness. Nonetheless, there are distinctly prominent disjunctions between the pertinent obligations of faith and those of international law. In essence, only the latter set of obligations can have a properly authoritative place in assessing Palestinian resorts to international force. This is [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday intended to block the Trump administration’s move to allow drilling off the coast of his state. SB-834, drafted in January, “prohibits … granted public trust lands from entering into any new lease or other conveyance authorizing new construction of oil- and gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands [...]

The White House announced  on Monday that the US will consider imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) judges and prosecutors if the ICC opens an investigation into the actions of United States service members and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan. The Chief Prosecutor of the ICC requested an investigation in November 2017 into alleged [...]

The new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria voiced concern Monday about abuses worldwide, specifically addressing the US’ separation of migrant families. In an opening statement  to the 39th session of the Human Rights Council , Bachelet stated that while the US has halted its “unconscionable practice” of separating immigrant children from their [...]