In a hearing before the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday, the Georgia government accused Russia of committing war crimes and human rights violations during the 2008 conflict . Georgia’s government accused Russia of more than 100 air assaults in Georgian territory. It cited evidence to show that Russia “carried out indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks,” [...]
In a 258-159 vote, the US House on Tuesday approved a bill to decrease some regulations that Dodd-Frank imposed on banks during the Obama administration. This vote follows an executive order President Donald Trump issued last year, ordering the dismantling of the 2010 law, which was designed to prevent banks from taking risks that would [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Ohio’s US congressional map as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. The ACLU is challenging the Ohio federal congressional map on the basis of violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Article I of the US Constitution. In the complaint, the ACLU points out that [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views. The court held that the @realDonaldTrump twitter handle possesses components that are “interactive space” where Twitter users may directly engage with the content [...]
The state of Alabama and US Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Commerce and the US Census Bureau on Monday over its inclusion of undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census. Alabama’s complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama , surrounds the 2020 Census [...]
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday found Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.’s former executive officer Gary Tanner and former CEO of Philidor Rx Services, LLC (Philidor) Andrew Davenport guilty for their roles in the multimillion-dollar kickback scheme. The convictions include counts related to wire fraud and [...]
The First Criminal Senate of Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court on Tuesday rejected the Attorney General’s request to rearrest former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, saying the risk of Puigdemont absconding are slight. The Neumünster District Court rejected an extradition request for Puigdemont on a rebellion charge for his role during Catalonia’s independence movement. Though the [...]
Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled in favor of transgender teen Gavin Grimm Monday, denying the Gloucester County School Board’s motion to dismiss a challenge to the school board’s bathroom policy. The school board had prohibited Grimm from using the boys’ restrooms on the justification that his biological gender was female. Grimm brought a Title IX [...]
Amnesty International reported on Tuesday that a Rohingya militant group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is behind at least one massacre against Hindus in the Rakhine State that took place last August, as well as other incidences of murders and abductions. Amnesty wrote that on August 25, 2017, ARSA murdered 53 Hindu [...]
UN Special Rapporteur Maud de Boer-Buquicchio on Monday urged Ireland to include a national strategy to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children. “I recognise the considerable progress made by Ireland in passing laws which strengthen protection against child marriage, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, including through the use of Information and [...]
