The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday endorsed the creation of a nation-wide securities regulator. Canada is the only G20 country that does not currently have a national securities regulator. There have been a number of attempts to make a nationwide regulator in Canada since the 1930s. The Canadian Constitution is structured to give the [...]
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation Thursday prohibiting the sale of materials to produce “ghost guns” in the state. The new law criminalizes selling manufactured parts or designs for assembling firearms by non-licensed individuals and effectively makes it illegal for individuals to assemble or possess a 3D printed firearm in New Jersey. In a [...]
Ecuador’s National Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, to stand trial for his alleged role in the 2012 attempted kidnapping of Correa’s political opponent, Fernando Balda. Balda claims that five men attempted to kidnap him in Bogota in 2012 on Correa’s orders and that the kidnapping was discovered and halted by Colombian [...]
The Trump White House issued a proclamation on Friday that bans migrants caught entering the US unlawfully from seeking asylum. The ban’s stated purpose is to funnel immigrants from Mexico and Central America to ports of entry along the border, where they will be allowed to apply for asylum “in an orderly and controlled manner [...]
A federal judge in Montana on Thursday granted a temporary injunction bringing an immediate halt to the construction of the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline project. Judge Brian Morris ruled in August that the US State Department must conduct a more thorough environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which was continued in Thursday’s ruling. [...]
The General Court of the European Union ruled Thursday that testing vacuum cleaners using empty dust bag receptacles does not serve the purpose of one of its energy efficiency regulations. The regulation in question is known as Directive 2010/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council. The directive was finalized in May 2010. As of September 1, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. The Ninth Circuit upheld the ruling that the decision to repeal DACA was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court also unanimously held that the rescission of [...]
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights lawyer Benjamin Tarug Ramos, who was the organization’s Secretary General. “e was for the longest time the ‘go-to’ pro-bono lawyer of peasants, environmentalists, activists, political prisoners and mass organizations in Negros,” says the press release. “Ben is [...]
Voters in six states considered ballot measures Tuesday to cap, limit or restrict various types of taxes. In Oregon a ban on taxes on groceries was defeated, and a legislative requirement of three-fifths majority for revenue increases was also defeated. In Washington a ballot measure to prohibit the state government from enacting taxes on groceries passed. In [...]
UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy said Thursday that sanctions that seek to block a country’s trade completely are equivalent to economic warfare against civilians. Economic sanctions are meant to burden states, but these often expose civilians to hardships, including impediments to humanitarian assistance. According to Jazairy, blocking necessities such as food and medicine “expos innocent [...]
