The Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky must be re-sentenced as he was originally sentenced in accordance with mandatory sentencing laws that are now unconstitutional. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012 and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison, in [...]
The West Virginia Supreme Court implemented new judicial policies Monday in light of the extreme corruption that led to four justices’ impeachments last year. The new policies seek to address the former justices’ improper conduct related to wasteful spending of taxpayer funds for office renovations and improper use of resources and property. One set of policies [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the US Army Corps of Engineers to dismiss a lawsuit challenging their refusal to protect vulnerable shoreline along the Puget Sound. The lawsuit deals with tidal jurisdiction boundaries. A key aspect in this dispute is the measurement of high tide along the coast of the Puget [...]
Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday released a joint statement claiming that foreign interference had no influence on the 2018 elections. The full report was submitted to President Donald Trump on Monday and remains classified. During the election cycle the Department of Justice and Homeland Security [...]
A California consumer on Monday filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging false positive notifications. The lawsuit alleges that Apple pushed a modification through an update for some iPhones and that this modification altered the use of the phones. After the update, affected customers received a message that stated, “this accessory may not be [...]
Intervening to douse a political fire, the Supreme Court of India on Tuesday issued directions to authorities in a corruption probe on the conduct of the police commissioner of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state. Detectives belonging to India’s federal investigation agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), arrived at the home of the [...]
The Attorneys General from 20 states and the Governor of Kentucky filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court Monday asking the court to hear an Alabama abortion case. The Alabama law outlaws the use of dilation and evacuation abortions. The method is most often used during weeks 15 to 18 of a pregnancy. [...]
UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged Brazil to comply with its international legal obligations to curtail torture. The UN experts expressed concern regarding São Paulo Governor João Doria’s veto of anti-torture legislation in January. São Paulo law N° 1257 would have established a State Committee for Preventing and Combating Torture and also included several controversial provisions regulating police [...]
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the bulk data surveillance regime employed by UK intelligence agencies. A lower chamber of the court ruled in September that the UK’s surveillance practices violated human rights law but ruled that the process of bulk data collection [...]
Bangladesh’s High Court, the lower division of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday directed trial courts in the country to conclude proceedings in drug-related cases promptly. It instructed lower courts in the country to finish proceedings within six months and also ordered senior police officials such as the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to monitor [...]
