In a new motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused Paul Manafort of using an encrypted messaging application to tamper with a witness. According to the motion, Manafort, former chairman of President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and a longtime associate identified as “Person A” [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday in response to the sanctions the US imposed on Russia in April. The counter-sanctions give Putin the right to ban trade from countries found to be hostile to Russia and to cut ties with such countries. According to Reuters , the counter-sanctions are not as strong [...]

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed lawsuits on Monday against Google and Facebook for failing to disclose information about who purchased political ads that were displayed on their platforms. Both companies are accused of violating RCW 72.17A, which requires that “political campaign and lobbying contributions and expenditures be fully disclosed to the public and [...]

The US Supreme Court delivered two rulings on Monday, in Hughes v. United States and Koons v. United States , related to when a prison sentence can be reduced through 18 USC §3582(c)(2) . In Hughes, the court ruled that §3582(c)(2) applied to a Type-C plea agreement. In Koons, the court ruled §3582(c)(2) cannot be [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated a decision that allowed undocumented immigrant “Jane Doe” to seek an abortion. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s decision was vacated as a Munsingwear vacatur. This means that the case became moot by an act of the winning party while on its way [...]

The US Supreme Court held unanimously Monday in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling that under the US Bankruptcy Code, a statement about an individual’s financial assets may be discharged if it is not in writing, even if the statement was false, affirming the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh [...]

The US Supreme Court handed a narrow victory Monday to a Colorado baker who had refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple citing his religious beliefs. The court ruled in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission that the commission violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause in assessing the cakeshop [...]

The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled Wednesday that citizens of Zimbabwe living outside of the country would be ineligible to vote in the nation’s upcoming July election. Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, or scattered around the world, and represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights filed suit arguing that the new constitution, which Zimbabwe adopted [...]

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits brought by Kaspersky lab, a Russian-based software company whose products have been banned from US government use, seeking to overturn these bans. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the two complaints, one for failure to state a claim, and [...]

In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees, lawmakers in Denmark approved a bill Thursday adding a provision to the Danish criminal code that forbids a person from wearing face-concealing clothing in public mainly to include those wearing burqas. The prohibition does not apply to the covering of the face which, the law defines, as serving [...]