Nicaragua’s Congress on Saturday approved an amnesty law that will offer protection to police and others involved in crimes against anti-government protesters over the past year. According to rights groups, more than 700 people were arrested in demonstrations that erupted in April 2018 when President Daniel Ortega tried to cut social security. More than 300 [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the motto “In God We Trust” being displayed on American currency. The motto was called into question by Michael Newdow, who stated that the inclusion of the phrase violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause states that “Congress shall make no [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, where federal law applies, state law will not be adopted. A California drilling platform worker, Brian Newton, filed suit claiming that under California law, he was entitled to pay for both his shift time and his time on standby. Newton pointed [...]
The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether the Second Amendment protects gun silencers, leaving in tact a lower court ruling that upheld federal regulation of the devices. The case revolved around two Kansas men, Shane Cox and Jeremy Kettler, who separately asked the Supreme Court to consider whether gun [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal agencies are not “persons” who may take advantage of administrative procedures for challenging patents. The agency in question, the US Postal Service (USPS), attempted to use administrative procedures from the America Invents Act to challenge a patent held by Return Mail, Inc. USPS had originally tried to [...]
US House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler on Monday announced that he reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain more evidence from the Mueller investigation relating to President Donald Trump’s possible obstruction of justice. Nadler stated that both Democrats and Republicans on the Committee are to receive the evidence that Special [...]
In an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court affirmed the ruling below in Quarles v. United States that intent formed at any time during a burglary is sufficient. Defendant Jamar Quarles was charged with a violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act for committing a felony with a weapon after three prior felony [...]
The US Supreme Court’s Monday orders added five new cases on a range of topics from the EPA to race discrimination in media, but denied a case filed by a current Guantanamo prisoner. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi, has been held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 17 years, since the early days of the war on [...]
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators lined the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in protest of a new extradition bill that would create a legal mechanism by which individuals could be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China. Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to retain its own social, legal and political systems for 50 [...]
UN rights experts on Friday called on the UN to enact an independent investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines, citing an increase of unlawful killings and attacks on individuals and institutions defending human rights. The report illustrates the “staggering number” of unlawful deaths and police killings in context of the “war on drugs,” [...]
