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 [...]
The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled on Friday that the July presidential election results, which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first election victory, were valid. The challenge to the results was brought by the opposition MDC Alliance who nominated Nelson Chamisa for the presidency. The court ruled that it could not change the presidential election results because [...]
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit filed by residents of both Maryland and Arizona over the census citizenship question to proceed. The lawsuit arises out of an additional question to the 2020 census questionnaire that asks citizens “whether each household member is a citizen of the United States by birth or [...]
Former US intelligence contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday after she accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors in June. Winner pleaded guilty to charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In May 2017 Winner kept a classified National Security Agency report concerning a Russian cyberattack [...]
The California State Legislature approved a bill Wednesday requiring California prosecutors to erase or reduce tens of thousands of marijuana criminal convictions. The legislation is expected to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown. The California Department of Justice “estimates that almost 220,000 cases are eligible for erasure or reduction. The Department of Justice has until [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday tossed a $3 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), saying that GSK could not have warned about the risks of suicide on its drug label for Paxil. GSK is the manufacturer of Paxil, the generic of which is paroxetine, a psychotropic drug often used to treat [...]
A judge for the 22nd Circuit Court of St. Louis, Missouri , affirmed a $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on Tuesday, for claims that their talc products, such as baby powder, caused ovarian cancer. The plaintiffs are 22 women, six of whom are deceased, and their families. In July, after nearly six weeks of trial [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s decision invalidating an Alabama state law prohibiting dilation and evacuation abortions, the most common second-trimester abortion procedure. Writing for a unanimous panel, Chief Judge Ed Carnes upheld the lower court after reviewing for clear error its decision to invalidate the [...]
A D.C. superior court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought against Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer. Steele was sued in April by three Russian business magnates for libel, a year after his dossier alleging Russia’s involvement with the Trump campaign was published. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan claimed that the contents [...]
Pittsburgh rapper, Jamal Knox, lost his appeal with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which ruled Tuesday that his song threatening police officers was not protected under the First Amendment. Officer Michael Kosko and Detective Daniel Zeltner of the Pittsburgh Police were both scheduled to testify against Knox after he was arrested in 2012 on multiple charges, [...]
