The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case in which a branch of Planned Parenthood challenged an Arkansas abortion law. The law requires any doctor prescribing an abortion pill to have an agreement with another doctor who can admit the patient to the hospital in the case of an emergency. A federal [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment’s automobile exception does not permit a police officer to enter the area around a home to search a parked vehicle without an invitation or a search warrant. In Collins v. Virginia , the defendant was convicted of receiving a stolen motorcycle after a police officer [...]
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, passed a Constitutional amendment Thursday that merges a region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province along Pakistan’s northwest Afghanistan border. The move extends a number of political, administrative, and human rights reforms to the FATA, and extends jurisdiction of [...]
Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Thursday accusing the Nigerian military of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during its fight against Islamic insurgency Boko Haram. The 89-page report , which is based on hundreds of interviews, gives accounts of abuses including rape, torching villages and indiscriminate killings. With the support of the [...]
Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed several multi-billion euro complaints in courts around Europe against Google (Android), Facebook, and two Facebook subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram Friday—the same day as EU data protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , went into effect. Combined, the lawsuits seek to fine a total 6.7 billion [...]
California’s 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a request to stay a lower court ruling that threatens to invalidate the state’s End of Life Option Act which allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to the terminally ill. California Attorney General Xavier Beccera sought to block last week’s ruling from Judge Daniel Ottolia of [...]
Amnesty International (AI) responded to the arrest of prominent human rights defender Mohammed al-Bajadi in Saudi Arabia on Friday, pointing out the arrest as continuation of the country’s crack down on human rights. Mohammed al-Bajadi founded the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), which was shut down by Saudi authorities after its continued campaigns [...]
US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Thursday that decreases some Obama-era regulations imposed on banks by the Dodd-Frank Act . Trump’s signature comes just two days after House approval on Tuesday. The new law allows banks with up to $250 billion in assets, as opposed to the previous $50 billion, escape some [...]
The Indonesian Parliament unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law on Friday that will grant the military direct involvement in various counter-terrorism operations. The updated legislation comes as a possible solution following a slew of suicide bombings recently in Surabaya by individuals tied to the Islamic State. President Joko Widodo stated that the involvement of the [...]
A three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday rejected a student’s argument that a school district’s transgender bathroom policy was an unconstitutional violation of his privacy, affirming the lower court’s decision. The lawsuit involved Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District, which had a practice of allowing transgender students to [...]
