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 [...]
A federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights Thursday. The 12-person jury found the men, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, guilty of depriving Floyd of his civil rights by exhibiting indifference to his medical needs during Floyd’s arrest in May [...]
Moldovan President Maia Sandu announced Thursday that the country will be closing its airspaces and asked the government to declare a state of emergency following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The country is preparing to harbor “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian refugees as a result of the recent attacks. Within hours of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s [...]
The New York Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that former US President Donald Trump and his children Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. will be required to attend depositions regarding an investigation launched last year into their family business practices. The judge also rejected an attempt by the Trumps to freeze the New York Attorney General’s [...]
Italy’s Constitutional Court rejected a request Wednesday to hold a referendum on legalizing the cultivation of both marijuana and other psychoactive plants and fungi. In December, activists were able to compile more than 630,000 signatures for the measure, validated by a separate court last month. Although there were more than enough valid signatures for the [...]
Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences. Titled House Joint Memorial 3 and sponsored by Idaho State [...]
The US Army, per a department memorandum Wednesday, said it will begin to immediately discharge soldiers who refuse to comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. This move follows similar discharge orders for vaccine refusers among the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. Approximately 3,300 active-duty service members are eligible for removal if they fail to [...]
US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal on Monday reintroduced the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies, or EARN IT Act. The Act, heavily opposed in its initial 2020 run, is aimed at stripping big tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube’s of legal protection against online child sexual abuse material. Lawmakers including Senator [...]
Mississippi’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to legalize medical marijuana in the state by an overwhelming 103-13 vote. Earlier this year, the state Senate passed the bill with a 46-4 vote. The voting margins in both chambers are considered “veto-proof,” enough to override a governor’s veto should Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves refuse [...]
In a recent lawsuit filed Tuesday, conservation groups sued the US Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS), the Forest Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers, claiming that their approval of the PolyMet open-pit copper mine and land exchange violates the Endangered Species Act. The suit challenges four separate issues all stemming from the FWS 2016 Biological [...]
