An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the arrest of two sons of former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of stock market manipulation, according to state news media. The Cairo criminal court indicted Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, along with seven others, for “violating stock market and central bank rules to make unlawful profits through dealing in [...]
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Sunday ordered that Iván Velásquez, the head of the UN’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , be allowed back into the country. Velásquez had been banned from entering the country because of a “recommendation of the National Security Council, which accused the CICIG’s head of attacking Guatemala’s governability, public [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld Illinois’ zero emission credit (ZEC) subsidies for the state’s nuclear power plants on Thursday. The ZECs require power producers in the state that generate electricity using coal or gas to purchase the ZECs from the nuclear power plants at a price of $16.50 per megawatt-hour. [...]
The number of migrant children in federal detention centers has increased from 2,400 children in May 2017 to 12,800 children in September, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services that Congress released to the New York Times. According to the data, the increase in detained children is due to fewer children being released to [...]
The Federal Court of Justice (Der Bundesgerichtshof) delayed a ruling Thursday in a case concerning potential copyright infringement by streaming platform, YouTube, for uploads by third parties to receive input on the issue from the Court of Justice of the European Union . The plaintiff in the case is a music producer that has a contract with [...]
Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the US and conspiracy to obstruct justice through witness tampering. Prosecutors originally brought seven charges against Manafort in the US District Court for the District of Columbia , but they reduced the charges to only two. The charges allege that Manafort acted [...]
The US Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Arizona ballot collection laws did not violate the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments or Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . The election practices at issue were Arizona’s requirement for people who cast votes in-person to do so in the precinct they were assigned, [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the UK’s bulk interception program violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights, the article pertaining to the respect of private life. The court held that the bulk interception program violated Article 8: as there was insufficient oversight both of the selection of Internet [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to investigate instances of interference with US elections and to take measures against those involved. The executive order instructs the Director of National Intelligence, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to spearhead and coordinate an assessment of foreign nationals and [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the Department of Education unlawfully delayed the implementation of William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The loan program (otherwise referred to as “Borrower Defense Regulations”) was created in November 2016. The purpose was to help protect students from predatory lending practices. The California Association of [...]
