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 [...]
There is a reasonable basis to believe that Venezuelan government has committed crimes against humanity since at least 2012, according to the Organization of American States (OAS) . After releasing a 400-page report from a panel of independent experts, the OAS will be turning over its findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for government [...]
The League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa and Iowa State University student Taylor Blair filed a lawsuit against Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate Wednesday alleging that House File 16 is unconstitutional and puts a particular burden on minority voters. Blair and the group allege that the law makes “voting in Iowa more [...]
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after 15 weeks. The new law makes it illegal for a physician to perform an abortion after 15 weeks gestational age, which is defined as “the age of an unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the [...]
US President Donald Trump signed the “Right to Try” Act into law Wednesday, which authorizes terminally ill patients to seek access to certain unapproved investigational drugs directly from a drug sponsor or manufacturer. The law amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and also limits the use of clinical outcomes and liability arising from [...]
Amnesty International (AI) denounced the “systematic ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy of President Ortega’s government” in a press release on Wednesday. The statement follows an AI report published the day before that detailed the Nicaraguan government’s tactics to suppress protesters. The organization especially criticized the government’s use of firearms to subdue protesters. “Security forces are authorized to use [...]
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy signed a bill into law Thursday that bans bump stocks—devices added to guns so that they may fire like automatic rifles. The law will ban “the sale or transfer, possession, manufacturing, or use of bumps stocks or other accessories to increase the rate of fire of a firearm.” The legislation defines [...]
The Illinois House of Representatives voted 72-45 on Wednesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) , 36 years after the deadline. The ERA would change the Bill of Rights to prohibit gender discrimination by the government. The Illinois Senate ratified the amendment in April. According to The Hill, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner does not [...]
The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that Lithuania and Romania had violated articles of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing secret CIA prisons. Lithuania violated the article against torture, the right to liberty and security, the right to respect for private life and the right to an effective remedy. Lithuania had [...]
