A panel of judges for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled Tuesday that despite finding North Carolina’s electoral map to be unconstitutional last week, they will allow it to be used in the upcoming November election. The court stated in its initial opinion that it had enjoined the state [...]
Faced with civil racketeering allegations, State Farm agreed to settle for $250 million on Tuesday, only moments before trial was set to begin in the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois . The settlement brings an end to 20 years of litigation , which started after consumers alleged they received generic car parts of [...]
The American Bar Association (ABA) filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in a US Supreme Court copyright infringement case, arguing the the right to sue attaches at the time the US Copyright Office accepts the application, not when the office acts on the application. The case addresses the divide among federal courts concerning whether to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a homeless person cannot be cited for violating city ordinances against camping or disorderly conduct for sleeping in outdoor public spaces if they do not have access to city shelters. The case was brought by six homeless and formerly homeless individuals in the [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) and Military Intelligence Directorate of continued arbitrary detention and torture of individuals accused of supporting opposition forces in the country. A cessation of hostilities agreement was signed by the government of South Sudan and opposition forces on December 21, 2017, that required the release [...]
A Myanmar judge sentenced two Reuters journalists on Monday to seven years in jail for breaching a law on state secrets. A judge found that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo breached the Official Secrets Act by obtaining confidential documents. The journalists were arrested on December 12, 2017, while investigating military operations in northern Rakhine [...]
The confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began Tuesday morning. In his opening statements , Kavanaugh began by thanking both the president and the 65 senators he met with over the previous months. He also took time to pay tribute to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the justice Kavanaugh would replace on the Supreme Court [...]
Amnesty International called Tuesday for the release of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, detained since June, and her husband Reza Khandan, who was arrested Tuesday. Reza Khandan was charged by Tehran’s Office of the Prosecutor with spreading propaganda against the system, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and promoting the practice of appearing [...]
The government of the island nation of Mauritius presented its claim Monday to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the British government forced the transfer of the Chagos Islands as a condition of independence in the 1960s. The UK leased the Diego Garcia island within the Chagos Archipelago to the US in 1966, which was [...]
American lobbyist Samuel Patten pleaded guilty on Friday of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act , which requires foreign agents to register with the US government. Patten formed a political consulting company with an unidentified Russian agent. The company advised a Ukrainian political party, the Opposition Bloc, making Patten an agent for a foreign principal. Patten met with members of the [...]
