In the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in US history, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed multiple federal criminal search warrants in Mississippi on Wednesday. The result was the arrest of 680 immigrant workers from seven agricultural processing plants that were raided. ICE’s newsroom released a statement, saying in part: All the unlawfully present foreign [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld an injunction granted by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas preventing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing guidance issued in 2012. The guidance, titled Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions [...]

A group called Abused in Scouting on Tuesday announced the filing of a new sexual abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, alleges that a former scout, known only as S.D. in the filing, was abused hundreds of times starting at age 12 for a [...]

The Trump administration and Republican party sued the state of California on Tuesday over a law signed last week by Governor Gavin Newsom that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns in order to be on the state’s primary ballot. The law does not explicitly name President Donald Trump, who has not disclosed his [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday struck down Google’s $5.5. million settlement over its invasion of privacy of millions of users. Google settled $5.5 million for installing cookies in browsers and not paying users for their information. The company was accused of exploiting loopholes in the Internet Explorer and Apple [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the 2017 defamation claim brought by former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin against the New York Times (NYT) may proceed. This decision vacates the ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, which dismissed the claim back in [...]

A spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expressed concern Tuesday about Italy’s new law imposing fines and penalties for search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. This law was first introduced as a security decree in June and was approved by the Italian parliament on Monday. The law imposes a maximum of €1 [...]

The Puerto Rico Senate filed a lawsuit in the Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Monday to remove acting Governor Pedro Pierluisi. Former Governor Ricardo Rossello stepped down on Friday amidst a corruption scandal. Pierluisi was named Secretary of State, next in line to be governor. He was confirmed by the Puerto Rico House of Representatives [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday remarked on the recent shootings in Ohio and Texas, calling for reform in background checks for gun purchases. First, he stated that there must be more efficient efforts for identifying early warning signs of potential mass shooters. Secondly, he stated that we must “stop the glorification of violence in [...]

India’s government introduced a bill in the upper house of parliament on Monday to cement the revocation of the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, a conflict-hit region claimed by both India and Pakistan. The move came hours after the country’s president promulgated an order revoking the region’s constitutional autonomy. Federal interior minister Amit [...]