Former El Salvador military commander Inocente Montano went on trial in Spain on Monday, accused of ordering the murder of six Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989. Two Salvadorean women were also killed in the incident. Montano was formerly held in the US, but was extradited to Spain in 2017. Ex-colonel Montano was the vice-minister of [...]

Wake County Superior Court Judge Vinston Rozier ruled, on Monday, that the North Carolina prison officials must come up with a plan for testing every inmate for COVID-19 and must drastically reduce the number of inmate transfers between prisons. The ruling comes after NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit arguing that the [...]

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a 2017 law that legalized settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. Under the “Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria,” which was approved in February 2017, settlers were allowed to remain on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West [...]

3M Company filed a lawsuit on Monday in the US District Court for the Central District of California against an Amazon seller that purported to sell 3M N95 face masks and respirators at inflated prices. The defendant, Mao Yu, is the owner of KM Brothers Inc., KMJ Trading Inc. and Supreme Sunrise, Inc. In the complaint, [...]

A Minneapolis judge on Monday set the bail for former police officer Derek Chauvin at $1.25 million. Chauvin faces recently increased charge of second-degree murder, alongside his previous second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder charges for the killing of George Floyd, and may face up to 40 years in prison if convicted. Chauvin participated in the [...]

The New York State Assembly on Monday approved the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act, which would criminalize the harmful use of chokeholds by police officers or peace officers. The act would create a new crime of aggravated strangulation. This would occur when a police officer or peace officer obstructs breathing or blood circulation by using a [...]

Chief Justice Lemons of the Virginia Supreme Court on Monday ordered the temporary suspension of all evictions and residential unlawful detainer actions. This order comes at the request of Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam. In a letter to the Chief Justice, Northam requested a suspension of unlawful detainer proceedings for 30 days so that the his [...]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution. Powell, a Republican who served in George W. Bush’s administration, endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the interview. “We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from [...]

The US Supreme Court rejected an argument Monday that would have expanded a prisoner’s ability to file lawsuit without paying a filing fee. Prisoner litigants often bring lawsuits in forma pauperis (IFP), or without a filing fee. The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) declares that prisoners are not able to acquire this status if they [...]

As a result of national protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, Democratic lawmakers in Congress introduced legislation on Monday aimed at ending excessive use of force by police forces. The Justice in Policing Act was introduced and sponsored by Representatives Karen Bass (D-CA) and Jerrold Nadler [...]