A jury in the Superior Court of California found Monsanto liable on Friday in a lawsuit filed by a former groundskeeper who alleges the company failed to warn him of cancerous side effects from a possible carcinogen, glyphosate, in their weedkiller, RoundUp . The jury ordered the major corporation to pay $289.2 million in damages, $250 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a US border agent acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a Mexican teenager is not immune from civil claims for damages by the boy’s mother. In October 2012 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot about 10 times in the back [...]

Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law in a referendum on Tuesday, delivering a resounding victory to unions. Proposition A , in part, prohibits compulsory union fees for non-union members. Specifically, at issue are “fair-share fees,” which are less than full dues and implemented to cover non-political costs that non-union members are able to benefit [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief on Monday urging the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn a lower court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge. After a six-week trial earlier this year, DC District Court Judge Richard Leon declined to enjoin the merger between the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by Anderson News LLC , a magazine wholesaler that was once the largest in the country, against six major publishing companies including Hearst and Time Inc. The Knoxville, Tennessee company, which began operations in 1917, operated as [...]

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, filed an appeal on Monday requesting a federal appeals court to review an order by District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia that requires Manafort to be detained in jail while he awaits trial on several felony [...]

A coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its policy to separate immigrant children from their families and refusal to allow asylum applicants entry along Southwestern border ports. The complaint describes reports of families who have sought asylum only to be unlawfully refused at [...]

Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Thursday accusing the Nigerian military of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during its fight against Islamic insurgency Boko Haram. The 89-page report , which is based on hundreds of interviews, gives accounts of abuses including rape, torching villages and indiscriminate killings. With the support of the [...]

California’s 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a request to stay a lower court ruling that threatens to invalidate the state’s End of Life Option Act which allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to the terminally ill. California Attorney General Xavier Beccera sought to block last week’s ruling from Judge Daniel Ottolia of [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in US v. Sanchez-Gomez that defendants’ constitutional objection to shackling was not saved from mootness because the defendants “sought ‘class-like relief’ in a ‘functional class action'” nor because “the challenged practice was ‘capable of repetition’ yet ‘evading review.'” A policy adopted by the US District Court for the [...]