Abused in Scouting filed a suit against Boy Scouts of America in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday on behalf of 8 men who were sexually abused while they were Boy Scouts. The case was made possible by a change in DC law which allows all sexual abuse victims under [...]
A US Department of Homeland Security official confirmed Monday that it would pursue a policy to send some Mexican asylum seekers applicants to Guatemala. The policy originated from the July Cooperative Asylum Agreement between the US and Guatemala. In the agreement, the countries established that Guatemala would harbor some asylum seeker applicants that entered into the [...]
U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson joined with eleven advocacy groups on Tuesday in calling upon the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an immediate investigation into the conditions in Mississippi prisons. A twenty-three page letter addressed to Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the DOJ Civil Rights Division alleged violations of prisoners’ rights and safety, noting [...]
In a supplemental sentencing memo filed on Tuesday, US Justice Department prosecutors amended their request for leniency for former national security advisor to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, instead seeking prison time. Previously, the prosecutors had been open to a sentence of probation for Flynn, who in 2017 pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators about [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered challengers to the Affordable Care Act to provide a quick response to their opponents’ motion to expedite the court’s consideration of the case. They must file their response by this Friday at 4 PM. The challengers, the Trump administration and a group of state attorneys general, won a [...]
Japanese authorities issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Carole Ghosn, the wife of former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn, on suspicion of having made false statements to a Tokyo court earlier this year. Mrs. Ghosn is currently in Lebanon with her husband where they are both citizens. The arrest warrant accuses Mrs. Ghosn of “falsely claiming [...]
In the 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market, the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor noted that “there has been mounting evidence that revolutionary changes are afoot” in the market for legal services. Over the past [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Monday that claims filed under the National Vaccine Injury Act (Vaccine Act) can be decided based solely on the written record. Such a procedural ruling allows claims to be judged without conducting evidentiary hearings or gaining either parties’ consent. The Vaccine Act establishes the National [...]
Mexican authorities announced Monday that an estimated 61,637 Mexicans have disappeared amid the country’s drug war. A previous analysis in April of 2018 put the figure at just 40,000. The figure was calculated based on analysis of data from state prosecutors. While the cases which were analyzed date back as early as the 1960s, more [...]
Iran’s Parliament approved a bill on Tuesday labeling the US military and Pentagon terrorist organizations following the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. According to Iranian state media, the triple-urgency bill designates the US army and Pentagon as a terrorist entity and further requires the government to allocate €200 million to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [...]
