California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into legislation California bill SB276 Monday, which brings stronger consequences to doctors who write fraudulent medical vaccine exemptions for school-aged children. The legislation includes provisions for the creation of a database of physicians with pending accusations and charges, from which California’s Department of Public Health shall not approve a vaccination [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Tuesday to defy a last-minute law requiring him to seek an extension of the upcoming Brexit deadline. The law, passed after Johnson moved to temporarily suspend Parliament until the middle of October, requires the Prime Minister to seek an extension to the deadline for negotiating an exit agreement with [...]
The government of Rwanda, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the African Union on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a transit mechanism for evacuating refugees out of Libya. According to a joint statement Tuesday, around 4,700 people are currently being held in detention centers in Libya and urgently need to be [...]
A federal judge in Ohio on Monday denied drug manufacturers and distributors’ request to dismiss the public nuisance claims against them. A public-nuisance claim can be maintained where the facts establish that the “design, manufacturing, marketing or sale of product unreasonably interferes with a right common to the general public.” Factual evidence and statistics, such [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday opened the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council with an update on various human rights situations and the role of climate change. Bachelet stated that climate change affects every region of the world with catastrophic implications. She stated, “storms are rising and tides could [...]
Fifty US states and territories announced an antitrust investigation of Google and its parent company Alphabet Monday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas will be leading the bipartisan investigation, which will focus on Google’s monopoly of online advertising markets. Paxton stated that “we have seen evidence that Google’s business practices may have undermined [...]
A Canadian pharmaceutical lobbying group, Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), and its members filed a lawsuit on Friday against the government, resisting new regulations meant to lower patented drug prices. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge from the group within the past three months after the Canadian government made major reforms to lower drug prices. [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday reinstated a nationwide ban on the new Trump administration rule that intended to block asylum applications based on specific requirements. Judge Jon Tigar stated in his opinion that, “The effect of the Rule is to categorically deny asylum to almost [...]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Florida Legal Services, and the Florida Justice Institute filed a suit in the United States District Court Northern District Of Florida in Tallahassee on Thursday calling for an end to solitary confinement as a punishment in Florida’s juvenile detention facilities. The lawsuit filed on behalf of several minor plaintiffs [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has began an investigation into four auto companies that created an agreement with the state of California regarding vehicle-emissions standards, according to Friday reports. The car companies include Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., BMW AG and Volkswagen AG. The California Emissions Pact was a deal between these four [...]
