DuPont and Chemours Co settled approximately 3,550 personal injury claims for $671 million on Monday. The claims arose after a leak of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) , a chemical used to make Teflon with known links to cancer, from DuPont’s Parkersburg, West Virginia, plant. The claimants alleged that the chemical contaminated their water supplies and had [...]
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump, appearing in a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, strongly condemned a North Korea ballistic missile test. North Korea tested a ballistic missile on Sunday which flew East for about 300 miles until it landed in the Sea of Japan . UN resolutions bar [...]
The US rejected the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the UN Mission in Libya , despite official reports that all other 14 members of the UN Security Council approved the appointment. The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, expressed disappointment on Friday over the the plan to appoint Fayyad, [...]
On Saturday tech company Oracle appealed the decision on their lawsuit over Google’s use of their software to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit . Oracle is alleging that Google’s Android software violated Oracle’s copyright, by copying certain code made by Oracle. Oracle lost in the disctrict court, but reasons that the [...]
Democratic Federal Election Commission (FEC) member Ellen Weintraub in a statement on Friday urged President Donald Trump to present evidence of his claims of extensive voter fraud in New Hampshire. Earlier this week Trump alleged that thousands of voters from Massachusetts had been successful in illegally voting in New Hampshire. Trump further alleged that the [...]
Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday put on hold eight executions after a magistrate for the US District Court of the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday refused to lift a stay on the first three of Ohio’s scheduled executions. Ohio has since appealed the stay, initiated by death row inmates, to the US Court [...]
Former American International Group (AIG) CEO Maurice Greenberg on Friday agreed to settle accounting fraud charges, first brought by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2005. The current New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stated of the settlement: Today’s agreement settles the indisputable fact that Mr. Greenberg has denied for twelve years: that [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the University of Tennessee College of Law Immigration Clinic discusses the immigration and constitutional questions surrounding Executive Order 13769 … Since Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” on January 27, 2017, approximately 60 lawsuits have been filed [...]
According to an Amnesty International report (AI) on Friday, “the ongoing political persecution of Anwar Ibrahim is symbolic of Malaysia’s crackdown on human rights.” According to Josef Benedict, AI’s Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Anwar has spent two years in prison on politically-motivated charges. Since Anwar’s conviction, Malaysian government attacks on civil [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled Wednesday that Microsoft can pursue its legal challenge that government gag orders are unconstitutional. Microsoft brought suit in April of last year alleging that sections 2705(b) and 2703 of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) , which governs the government’s access to [...]
