The US and the UK entered into the CLOUD Act Agreement Thursday, the world’s first transnational agreement allowing law enforcement agencies to demand electronic data regarding serious crime directly from tech companies based in the other country. This agreement, signed by US Attorney General William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, is targeted at [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in several cases for the upcoming term, including a challenge to a controversial Louisiana abortion law. In the consolidated cases of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee and Gee v. June Medical Services LLC, the court will hear a challenge to a Louisiana abortion law adopted in 2014 [...]

The Scottish Parliament on Thursday passed the Children Equal Protection from Assault bill, making it the first country in the UK to criminalize physical punishment of children. This bill removes the defense of reasonable chastisement, which is currently used on occasions when a parent assaults their child. The removal of the defense, however, does not [...]

Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday announced a new proposal for governing the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland following the potential withdrawal of Great Britain from the EU. In a speech to the House of Commons, Johnson outlined five elements of his proposal. The first element of Johnson’s proposal is to continue [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union, issued a preliminary ruling Thursday stating that Polish courts could strike out language in foreign-held mortgage contracts that unfairly used currency exchange rates to disadvantage borrowers, even if doing so would completely annul the mortgage contract. In 2008 two Polish borrowers, Kamil Dziubak and Justyna Dziubak, signed [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of immigrant children and parents “cruelly and inhumanely separated from each other in Arizona and at other places along the United States’ southern border by the [...]

Republican Representative Doug Collins, Ranking Member of the US House Judiciary Committee, submitted an amicus brief in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday asserting that the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry has no legal basis. In the brief, Collins is asking the court to deny the committee’s application for an order authorizing the [...]

The High Court in Belfast held Thursday that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws violate European Convention on Human Rights Article 8, which protects the right to respect for private and family life. The High Court’s decision follows a UK Supreme Court (UKSC) ruling from 2018, which found Northern Ireland’s abortion laws to be too strict. Mrs [...]

A group of Latinx voters and a Latinx advocacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the Northern District of Alabama seeking to compel the Department of Commerce to use an “actual Enumeration” of the population in assigning seats in the House of Representatives and Electoral College votes. The voters reside in California, Florida, Arizona and [...]

A UK High Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the parents of Tafida Raqeeb who wanted to keep their 5-year-old on life support. The parents claim that taking their daughter off of life support would conflict with their religious beliefs as Muslims. Tafida has brain damage, is likely in a minimally conscious state and [...]