The US District Court for the Southern District of California ordered Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday to release internal documents pertaining to Trump University, the terminated education program that is currently the focus of two class action lawsuits. The suits were brought by two San Diego students who accused Trump University of making [...]
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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday expressed concern over the poor living conditions of several refugee camps located in northern Greece. Refugees were recently transferred to the sites of concern after being properly evacuated from the makeshift camp at Idomeni, located on the Greek border. While it was agreed that evacuation was a necessary [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday concluded that enforcement officials acted in good faith when they retained and searched copies of electronic files seized during a separate investigation that took place years before. In U.S. v. Ganias, Stavros Ganias argued against his 2011 tax-evasion conviction asserting that the Fourth Amendment’s [...]
The national Israeli Police on Sunday recommended that Sara Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, be indicted for improper behavior and misuse of state funds. The allegations include breach of trust, falsifying documents and receiving goods under false pretenses. Law enforcement officials asserted that they have found enough evidence to indict the following: Sara Netanyahu, [...]
A Mexican judge granted a temporary suspension on the extradition of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán to the US on Saturday. The decision comes after Guzmán’s lawyers filed an appeal arguing that extradition to the US would be unconstitutional. The Mexican foreign ministry had approved the extradition of Guzmán so that he could be tried in [...]
Argentina’s last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, and other former military officers were sentenced to prison on Friday for their roles in Operation Condor in the 1970s. The criminal court in Buenos Aires, composed of judges Adrián Grünberg, Óscar Amirante, Pablo Laufer and Ricardo Ángel Basílico, handed Bignone a 20-year prison sentence on top of his previous [...]
California Governor Edmund G. Brown signed Senate Bill 1408 into law on Friday, allowing HIV-positive individuals to become transplant donors to HIV-positive recipients. The California Legislature passed the bill earlier that day. Brown and the state’s congress moved quickly to pass the emergency measure in order to permit an HIV-positive man to donate part of [...]
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday vacated its prior ruling refusing to recognize same-sex adoption. In its short opinion , the court stated that “the Court of Civil appeals and the Jefferson Family Court erred in giving full faith and credit” to a Georgia state court decision declaring the woman the adoptive parent of her [...]
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that juvenile convicted of first-degree murder may not be sentenced to life without parole. The court reasoned that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole was cruel and unusual punishment and emphasized that “sentencing courts should not be required to make speculative up-front decisions on juvenile offenders’ prospects [...]
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned Friday that the severe financial crisis facing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is negatively impacting its ability to function. Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the OHCHR issued a briefing Fridaymorning in which she stated that if the IACHR does [...]
