The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Wednesday said that the surging violence in Colombia caused the internal displacement of people, forced restriction of movement, and injury or death of people by explosives to reach the highest level of the past five years. The country’s internal armed conflict has lasted almost 60 years and [...]

Indigenous-led group NDN Collective announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit in South Dakota federal court against a local hotel operator after she pledged on social media to ban Native Americans from the hotel. The owner’s social media post came after a shooting last weekend at the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City in [...]

A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. That sum was split evenly between $20 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in punitive [...]

The UN Security Council Wednesday failed to adopt a Russia-drafted resolution for civilian protection and humanitarian aid access to those impacted by the war in Ukraine which failed to mention Russia’s role in creating the war. Of the 15 UN Security Council members, only Russia and China voted in favor. The other 13 members abstained. [...]

Idaho Governor Brad Little Wednesday signed a new abortion bill into law, despite expressing grave concerns about the wisdom and constitutionality of the measure and warning that it could re-traumatize victims of sexual assault. Senate Bill 1309 bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows family members of what it calls “a preborn child” [...]

District Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia Wednesday granted preliminary injunctions for 12 families to request mask requirements for their immunocompromised children in school. The complaint challenged Governor Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that allows parents of students attending Virginia public schools to choose for their children to not be subject to [...]

A federal judge in Los Angeles is expected to approve a settlement worth $18 million in a case involving video game giant Activision Blizzard, Inc. and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The case was initiated in July of 2021 when the video game company was sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and [...]

The District Court of The Hague Wednesday rejected a suit brought by four Nigerian widows against oil giant Shell for allegedly helping corrupt witnesses testifying against their late husbands, who were executed in 1995 by the Nigerian government following protests against Shell’s exploitation of the Niger Delta. In 1995, former military ruler Sani Abacha executed [...]

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd., a case concerning federal district courts’ authority to apply a particular statute to private commercial arbitral tribunals. In August 2017, Luxshare, Ltd. (Luxshare) purchased business units from ZF Automotive US, Inc. (ZF) for approximately $1 billion, and the deal [...]

South Africa’s Western Cape Division of the High Court Wednesday halted the construction of Amazon’s new Africa headquarters and ordered the developer to consult with local indigenous people who say the site is on sacred land. Judge Patricia Goliath ruled that Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust (LLPT), the developer of the site, must cease construction immediately [...]