The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia’s Incumbent Protection Act violates the First Amendment The court of appeals held that the act infringes on political parties’ First Amendment rights to free association because it limits their ability to select candidates for office as they deem appropriate. Virginia generally allows political [...]
The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled on Wednesday that the National Football League (NFL) did not violate New Jersey ticket sale laws for the 2014 Super Bowl. New Jersey law states that “t shall be an unlawful practice for a person, who has access to tickets to an event prior to the tickets’ release for [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday called Guantanamo prison a “stain on human rights” on the eve of the prison’s seventeenth anniversary. Guantanamo prison currently holds 40 detainees, many of whom were tortured by the CIA before being transferred to the facility. Many have also been issued transfers to other prisons and are still awaiting such transfers. [...]
A federal judge in Iowa held Wednesday that a 2012 Iowa law criminalizing undercover farm investigators was a violation of the First Amendment. In 2012 lawmakers amended Iowa Code 717A to include a provision making it a crime for investigators to go undercover at farms and slaughterhouses for data collection and investigative journalism purposes. The [...]
Maciej Szpunar, advocate general for the European Court of Justice, has issued a recommendation Thursday that the court rule for in the “right to be forgotten” case. This case was initiated following a 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice which guaranteed EU citizens the “right to be forgotten.” Under the 2014 ruling, European [...]
The EU imposed sanctions against Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and two Iranian nationals on Tuesday. “This means that funds and other financial assets of the Ministry and both individuals have been frozen,” explained the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stef Blok, and the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Kajsa Ollongren. The Netherlands recommended [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt in which it will consider overturning precedent that currently allows one state to be sued in the courts of another. The case of Nevada v. Hall formerly set the relevant precedent in 1979, holding that a sovereign state can [...]
Former Insys Therapeutics Inc., CEO Michael Babich pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges related to conspiracy and mail fraud stemming from the sale of a fentanyl nasal spray, Subsys. Babich and the other defendants, former Insys executives and managers, were charged in 2016 with conspiracy to commit racketeering, mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate the [...]
On Tuesday, House Democrats introduced a bill that would expand background checks on gun sales. The bill would require background checks on most gun purchases, “including those sold at gun shows and over the internet.” However, there would be some exceptions for guns for law enforcement officers as well as for “guns transferred between close [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that South Carolina did not have standing to sue the United States Department of Energy over the termination of construction of a nuclear processing facility. Originally, South Carolina had sought to prevent the termination of the nuclear processing facility through two claims. [...]
