A judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California  ruled  Tuesday that homeless groups may pursue a class action lawsuit against the city of Berkeley, California. Plaintiffs, who identify themselves as members of the homeless activist group “First They Came for the Homeless” (FTCftH), filed suit against the city of Berkeley [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement  on Wednesday calling for the US Senate to halt its confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh  to the US Supreme Court after a third accuser came forward, alleging Kavanaugh was present when she was sexually assaulted in 1982. “With so much uncertainty about these allegations, the Senate should not be scheduling even [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that Justice Department (DOJ) official John Gore must sit for questioning by attorneys over lawsuits stemming from the introduction of a citizenship question his department requested for the 2020 census. The Trump administration is currently facing a number of lawsuits filed by several states [...]

Yemen war crime investigators on Tuesday asked  the UN Human Rights Council  to renew their mandate and allow the continued inquiry into Yemen’s “extremely alarming” conflict. The Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen , in their initial report  published in August, found evidence “that members of the Saudi-led coalition, the Yemeni government, and the Houthi armed [...]

Ion Ficior, a former Romanian prison chief who was sentenced to 20 years for crimes against humanity, died in jail on Wednesday at the age of 90. Ficior was charged with the deaths of 103 political prisoners during his time as commander of the Periprava work camp during the communist ruling. Charges were filed in [...]

The German Bishops Conference  released a study  on Tuesday, which found allegations of sexual abuse of minors by 1,670 clerics  of the Catholic Church in Germany between 1946 and 2014. The number of clerics represents 4.4 percent of all of the clerics in Germany in that time frame. The reports specifies that the number is [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld in-part  the constitutionality of the world’s largest biometric database system, which contains personal information of more than a billion Indians, saying the benefits of the system outweigh the costs to individual freedoms. The system is called the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). The court explained the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit  ruled  Tuesday that Uber Technologies Inc.  can require arbitration in a lawsuit brought by former and current Uber drivers over Uber’s classification of the drivers as independent contractors. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the arbitration agreements were unenforceable because the lead plaintiffs opted out of arbitration [...]

The number of violent crimes in the US dropped by 0.7 percent and property crimes dropped by 3 percent, according to the FBI’s 2017 crime statistics  released Monday. Violent crimes include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property crimes includes offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. The report reflects  data [...]

Qualcomm , a producer of processing chipsets, on Tuesday accused Apple of engaging in a years-long scheme to steal Qualcomm’s corporate secrets surrounding its chip-making process in order to pass them along to Intel, a main competitor of Qualcomm and the current supplier of processing chips found in many Apple products. In the original complaint, [...]