The family of George Floyd has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the family of George Floyd against the city of Minneapolis and the officers involved with his death. The lawsuit was filed Monday and argues that the prone restraint techniques used by the Minneapolis Police Department, the “warrior style” training each officer [...]
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, challenging a new US Department of Education (DE) rule impeding defrauded students from seeking financial relief. The challenged rule revised a 2016 Obama administration rule that offered a path for defrauded students to cancel their [...]
The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that the Privacy Shield agreement used for transferring European Union (EU) user data to companies in the US is invalid. The decision is a significant blow to tech companies in both the EU and the US. The court annulled a 2016 decision in which the European Commission had [...]
A Munich court banned Tesla from advertising about its autopilot project Wednesday, stating that its previous marketing campaign misled German consumers. Specifically, the court took issue with Tesla’s use of the word “autopilot” and the claim that Tesla vehicles have “full potential for autonomous driving.” Tesla advertised that its vehicles could navigate on motorways from [...]
US President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced several new cases related to the US government’s campaign to dismantle MS-13, an international criminal gang that has been aggressively targeted by the Trump administration. The cases are being conducted by Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV), an initiative launched in August 2019 by [...]
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has signed two police reform bills into law calling for police reform and an end to systemic racism in law enforcement. The measures were framed in response to national outcry in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other Black people at the hands of police. House Bill 1841, [...]
President Trump Wednesday announced his administration’s final rule in a multi-year “modernization” of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the nation’s foundational law for environmental protection. A press release from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) stated that “the announcement comes after a multi-year review of its NEPA regulations, and after receiving over 1.1 [...]
President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday announcing a series of sanctions and US policy changes in retaliation for China’s recent restrictions on Hong Kong autonomy. “The situation with respect to Hong Kong, including recent actions taken by the PRC to fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat,” reads the [...]
A US District Court judge has rejected an $18.9M class-action settlement with Harvey Weinstein’s former studio, The Weinstein Company (TWC). Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday dismissed the idea that the victims of Weinstein could be certified as a class, citing distinctions in the cases of [...]
The European General Court ruled on Tuesday that the deal between tech giant Apple and Ireland did not give Apple an illegal tax break under EU competitiveness rules. The court annulled a 2016 ruling that found that Ireland gave Apple an illegal tax break. The 2016 ruling further ordered Apple to pay up to $14.5B [...]
