Ohio’s Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on Friday granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of a medical marijuana cultivator suing the Ohio Department of Commerce (DOC) over minority licensing quotas. Greenleaf Gardens sued the Ohio DOC over R.C. § 3796.09(C), which called for 15 percent of the cultivator licenses to go to “one of [...]

The Republic of Kosovo Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the acquittal of current Deputy Prime Minister Fatmir Limaj on war crimes charges. Limaj had been accused of committing war crimes during the Kosovo War in 1998. At the time, Limaj served as a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The accusation claimed that Limaj, [...]

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq on Monday convicted five members of the Islamic State to death by hanging. The five members were accused of detonating a car bomb at an Iraqi Army security checkpoint in Baghdad, resulting in the death and injuries of 13. According to the Media Center of the Supreme Judicial Council in the Rasafa Federal [...]

The state of West Virginia voted Tuesday to approve a judicial budget oversight amendment.  The amendment allows the West Virginia legislature to reduce the judicial budget by no more than 15 percent. Providing that the total general revenue appropriations to the judiciary may be reduced in the budget bill, and setting fort the required procedures [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called Tuesday for a delay in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. The governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh had originally agreed that the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh would be repatriated to Rakhine State in Myanmar later this month. The Special Rapporteur, Yanghee Lee, said [...]

US Chief Justice Roberts denied an application Friday to stay a climate change lawsuit against the government. This reverses a temporary hold of the case, Juliana v. US, ordered by Roberts last month. The government sought to stay the lawsuit until review of a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the lawsuit dismissed. The government [...]

A judge for the US District Court Southern District of Ohio ruled Tuesday that a judge could not be sued for denying name changes for transgender minors. Stephanie and Kylen Whitaker sued Judge Joseph Kirby when he refused to approve a name change for their transgender child. Ohio law requires that name changes be approved by [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Friday that an Austrian court’s conviction for disparaging religious doctrines did not violate the defendant’s freedom of expression. The case centered around two seminars hosted by Ms S in 2009. During the talks, titled “Basic Information on Islam,” Ms S referred to the Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile. Subsequently, [...]

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Hartford Courant Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking the release of documents related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Hartford Courant requested documents created by the perpetrator, Adam Lanza, through Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI). When the state denied the request, the Hartford Courant brought this suit. [...]