A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona issued a pre-trial order Monday accepting another court’s finding of racial profiling by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio . Hearing a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), US District Court Judge Roslyn Silver accepted the finding from a previous case [...]

The New York Senate on Monday passed a medical marijuana bill that would expedite access to marijuana for emergency medical purposes. The bill, passed by a Republican-led Senate in a 50-12 vote, would allow people with “progressive and degenerative” diseases or whose lives are at risk to have better access to marijuana. Opponents of the [...]

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for war crimes committed during the 1971 War of Liberation against Pakistan. Mojaheed, the Secretary-General of Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) was originally sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on charges of kidnapping and murder during the war. Mojaheed [...]

An Egyptian court upheld the death sentence of deposed president Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday after consulting the grand Mufti, Egypt’s highest religious figure and a government advisor on Islamic law. The death sentence was originally imposed in May, with more than 100 other defendants sentenced to death in absentia. The sentences were ordered as a [...]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday renewed his call for the country to repeal the Human Rights Act and institute its own bill of rights in an article for the Sun newspaper . Cameron made the call the same day he gave a speech celebrating the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna [...]

The Belgian Privacy Commission announced Monday that it is suing Facebook for alleged violations of Belgian and European privacy laws . In May, the commission issued Facebook a set of recommendations urging the social media site to stop tracking users. Making the announcement, commission president Willem Debeuckelaere said “we cannot continue to negotiate through other [...]

The US Court of Federal Claims ruled Monday that the Federal Reserve bailout of AIG in 2008 exceeded its authority but did not award any damages. The suit was brought by former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg and claimed that the Federal Reserve’s taking of a 79.9 percent equity share as consideration for bailout funds should [...]

The Cabinet of Israel on Sunday approved a bill allowing the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike if their lives are at risk. Entitled Preventing Damage from Hunger Strikes , the law would require doctors to exhaust other means of ending a hunger strike before using force-feeding. Proponents of the bill say it would remove [...]

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday unanimously affirmed a lower court decision that employers’ zero tolerance drug policies are not pre-empted by Colorado’s legalization of medical marijuana. The court held that an employee can legally be discharged for consuming marijuana off-duty, as a plain meaning reading of the state’s lawful off duty activities statute implies [...]

Romania’s Superior Magistrates’ Council on Monday rejected 22 proposals that would have made it harder to fight top-level corruption. The proposals, developed by the governing Social Democratic Party , would have changed the law to make it harder to arrest lawmakers for corruption-related offenses including conflict of interest . Although the decision is not binding, [...]