Duke University agreed to pay the US government $112.5 million Monday to settle a lawsuit relating to a technician’s fabricated and falsified research data used to obtain funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies. The settlement amount represents reimbursement of federal grant money and appropriate penalties for False Claims Act violations. [...]
Attorney Michael Avenatti, known for representing clients against public figures such as President Donald Trump and Robert Kelly, was charged and arrested on Monday in a sting operation after allegedly attempting to extort Nike. The charges, filed in the Southern District of New York, include conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort, conspiracy [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic Inc., and Dutra Group v. Batterton. The Jones Act provides means of recovery for seamen in personal injury and wrongful death laws. Through a measure of “unseaworthiness,” plaintiffs can recovery if injury happens because a vessel is not [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of an unnamed corporation required to disclose vital information regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The company had argued that it was immune to investigation the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which restrains prosecution for foreign entities. A lower court initially fouond that the request [...]
Alberta Judge Mary Moreau decided Monday that the war crimes sentence against former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has now expired. Khadr was charged with crimes in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old. He was detained at Guantanamo and spent a few years there before pleading guilty to certain charges to avoid being sentenced for [...]
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday the state had in the past been the main violator of human rights in the country. “As a president, and at the same time as commander of the country’s armed forces, I will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico,” said [...]
A South Korean district court in Daejeon on Friday ordered the seizure of Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd. assets in South Korea after the company refused to compensate Koreans following a supreme court decision of a wartime labor case. In its November 2018 ruling, the high court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate each of the [...]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch mosques terror attack that resulted in 50 dead. Ardern said that a royal commission, which is the country’s highest form of investigation, are reserved for “matters of the gravest public importance,” and the mosque attack was one of them. The [...]
The UN said on Monday that it “appreciates” the Bangladeshi government’s plan to relocate Rohingya refugees from camps in and around the south-eastern city of Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, a remote island off the country’s coast. In a press statement issued by its office in Dhaka, the UN said that the Bangladeshi government’s efforts [...]
A jury on Friday acquitted former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld of all charges in the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Antwon Rose II. The jury was instructed to consider first-degree murder, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, Rosfeld could have been sentenced to life in prison. After three-and-half days hearing [...]
