US Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday rejected a request by gun rights group for an emergency stay of the bump stock ban put in place by the Trump administration. Bump stocks came to public attention in 2017 after 58 concertgoers were killed in the Las Vegas shooting in which the killer used bump stocks attached to assault [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in two partisan gerrymandering cases. The first, Rucho v. Common Cause, asks the court whether North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map is unconstitutional, as the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina found. The district court first found that the issue over the map was [...]
A Belgrade appeals court published a decision on Tuesday in which it annulled Mirjana Markovic’s one-year prison sentence and sent the case back for retrial. Mirjana Markovic is a former leader of the Yugoslav left party and widow of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. In 2000 Markovic was accused of abuse against official duty, as [...]
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington granted an injunction on Tuesday blocking specific language that requires Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to obtain legislative approval before settling cases. The ruling marks the second legal blockade to a set of laws passed by GOP lawmakers in a lame-duck session late last year that curtail powers of [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the victims of the attack on the USS Cole and their families. The opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, held that the Republic of Sudan was improperly served and cannot have a default judgement entered against them. The USS Cole entered the harbor of Aden, Yemen, to [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that rivers that pass through national parks in Alaska are not federally owned and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of the National Park Service (NPS). John Sturgeon, a resident of Alaska and avid moose hunter, was stopped by Park Service rangers for piloting his hovercraft along a section [...]
The US Department of Justice filed a two-sentence letter on Monday to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit detailing support of the December ruling that found the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. The statement is consistent with the Trump administration’s stance against the Act. The ACA calls for an individual mandate to [...]
Utah governor Gary Herbert on Monday signed into law HB 136, which bans abortion after 18 weeks. Violating the abortion laws is a felony of the second or third degree, except for violation of 76-7-305(2)(a) through (c) and (e), regarding informed consent requirements, which is a class A misdemeanor. Abortion is authorized when 1) the [...]
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the new Copyright Directive for online platforms, holding them liable for user uploaded content, except for materials such as memes, GIFs and hyperlinks to news articles. The Directive aims to apply copyright law to the digital age, as well as to ensure that the internet remains a space for freedom [...]
The US Court of International Trade on Monday upheld the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported steel for national security reasons. The decision imposing tariffs was challenged by the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), a group of steel importers, as unconstitutional. Specifically, they claimed that Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 violates a constitutional prohibition [...]
