The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated a decision that allowed undocumented immigrant “Jane Doe” to seek an abortion. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s decision was vacated as a Munsingwear vacatur. This means that the case became moot by an act of the winning party while on its way [...]

The US Supreme Court held unanimously Monday in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling that under the US Bankruptcy Code, a statement about an individual’s financial assets may be discharged if it is not in writing, even if the statement was false, affirming the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh [...]

The US Supreme Court handed a narrow victory Monday to a Colorado baker who had refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple citing his religious beliefs. The court ruled in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission that the commission violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause in assessing the cakeshop [...]

The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled Wednesday that citizens of Zimbabwe living outside of the country would be ineligible to vote in the nation’s upcoming July election. Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, or scattered around the world, and represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights filed suit arguing that the new constitution, which Zimbabwe adopted [...]

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits brought by Kaspersky lab, a Russian-based software company whose products have been banned from US government use, seeking to overturn these bans. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the two complaints, one for failure to state a claim, and [...]

In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees, lawmakers in Denmark approved a bill Thursday adding a provision to the Danish criminal code that forbids a person from wearing face-concealing clothing in public mainly to include those wearing burqas. The prohibition does not apply to the covering of the face which, the law defines, as serving [...]

There is a reasonable basis to believe that Venezuelan government has committed crimes against humanity since at least 2012, according to the Organization of American States (OAS) . After releasing a 400-page report from a panel of independent experts, the OAS will be turning over its findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for government [...]

The League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa and Iowa State University student Taylor Blair filed a lawsuit against Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate Wednesday alleging that House File 16 is unconstitutional and puts a particular burden on minority voters. Blair and the group allege that the law makes “voting in Iowa more [...]

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after 15 weeks. The new law makes it illegal for a physician to perform an abortion after 15 weeks gestational age, which is defined as “the age of an unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the [...]

US President Donald Trump signed the “Right to Try” Act into law Wednesday, which authorizes terminally ill patients to seek access to certain unapproved investigational drugs directly from a drug sponsor or manufacturer. The law amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and also limits the use of clinical outcomes and liability arising from [...]