Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara signed a new constitution into law on Tuesday. Voters endorsed the new charter with over 93 percent of the vote in a referendum last month, and the Ivory Coast court upheld the referendum results last week. One of the major changes in the new constitution is that candidates now only [...]

Colorado citizens on Tuesday voted in favor of Proposition 106 , a state ballot proposition that gives terminally ill adult patients the right to self-administer lethal drugs after receiving approval from two physicians. The measure passed with a substantial majority, with over 65 percent of voters in favor. Under the new law, physicians are not [...]

Missouri voters approved an amendment on Tuesday to require voters to present photo identification at the polls. The amendment proposes the same bill that Governor Jay Nixon vetoed in July. The Missouri Legislature overrode his veto in September. Opponents of the bill say that it will make voting more difficult and could disenfranchise voters, while [...]

Colorado voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 69 (ColoradoCare) , which would have created the state’s first universal health insurance program, with 80 percent of voters voting against the initiative. According to Coloradans for Coloradans , ColoradoCare would be an even bigger burden on the state’s already strained budget. Coloradans for Coloradans also claim that the [...]

Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved proposals to legalize recreational marijuana on Tuesday, while several other states voted to permit the use of medical marijuana. California voters passed Proposal 64 , which immediately permits those over 21 years of age to use recreational marijuana. This creates the largest market for the legal use of [...]

UNICEF urged the government of Myanmar Tuesday to protect its children, particularly those in regions most embroiled in conflict. The statement calls attention to the area of Rakhine State , highlighting the concern for those children who have been isolated from receiving aid as a result of internal tension. UNICEF stated that the children in [...]

Gun control ballot measures were approved by voters Tuesday in California, Nevada and Washington while failing in Maine. California’s Proposition 63 would require individuals to obtain a permit before purchasing ammunition. It would also eliminate several exemptions to the state’s large-capacity magazine ban and increase penalties for possessing them. This proposition passed with 62.7 percent [...]

A Canadian law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Samsung for negligence in the distribution of the Galaxy Note 7 . McKenzie Lake Lawyers, LLP filed the action Friday with the Superior Court of Ontario . The firm alleges that Samsung was negligent in their marketing and distribution of the phone. Further, McKenzie [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard argument in the cases of Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami and Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Co. . Believing cyclical poverty in Miami is a byproduct of predatory loans against minority groups, Miami brought a federal lawsuit against lenders Bank of America and Wells Fargo alleging [...]

More than 1,000 Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black marched through the the city in silence on Tuesday in opposition of a decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress that barred two elected pro-independence lawmakers, Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-Ching, from taking their seats in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council . In October [...]