The US Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a notice with the US District Court for the District of Columbia indicating that White House personnel had been instructed to preserve all presidential records according to the Presidential Records Act. This notice was filed in response to requests by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson for [...]
A UK High Court judge on Wednesday resolved a legal battle between India and Pakistan that has lasted more than 70 years. The dispute revolved around the 1 million pounds that Nizam VII, then-monarch of Hyderabad, transferred to a British bank in 1948 to support the newly-established Pakistan. Pakistan contended that the money was compensation [...]
A federal judge granted an injunction on Tuesday blocking a California law that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s ballots. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act into law in July after passage by over two-thirds majority of the legislature. [...]
A lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data-collection was revived Wednesday by the UK Court of Appeals. The suit was filed by a group called “Google You Us,” led by plaintiff Richard Lloyd. Lloyd is seeking 3.2 billion pounds from the internet giant based on Google unlawfully obtaining personal information of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday allowed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality repeal to stand but found that states may make their own net neutrality regulations. “Despite the Commission’s failure to adequately consider the 2018 Order’s impact on public safety, pole-attachment regulation, and the Lifeline Program [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday that temporarily prevents the state from enforcing a fetal heartbeat abortion ban that was signed into law earlier this year. This preliminary injunction comes following a lawsuit that was filed by several organizations after the bill was [...]
A judge for the US District Court of Massachusetts on Tuesday upheld Harvard University’s undergraduate admissions process, which had been challenged by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) as discriminatory against Asian American applicants. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits race discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. SFFA alleged that Harvard violates [...]
India’s Supreme Court on Monday directed the state government of Gujarat to pay 5 million Indian rupees (US$ 70,000) in two weeks as compensation to Bilkis Bano, a 40-year-old woman who was raped by a mob during an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002. In April the court had ordered the Gujarat government to compensate Bano monetarily. [...]
A federal judge on Monday struck down two Virginia laws that restrict access to abortion, ruling that they unconstitutionally burden women seeking abortions. He upheld two other challenged abortion laws, as well as the remainder of the bill containing one of the spiked laws. US District Court Judge Henry Hudson struck down Virginia’s second-trimester hospital [...]
US Representative Chris Collins (R-NY) resigned Monday afternoon after being accused of insider trading in a 2018 criminal complaint. Collins is accused of using his position as a board member of Innate Immunotherapeutics to provide insider information to members of his family. The complaint states that, “Christopher Collins, a member of Innate’s board of directors, [...]
