In a press briefing Tuesday, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, called on the US to halt its recently mandated practice of detaining and separating those immigrating illegally, including those with children, known as the “zero tolerance policy” recently put in place along the US southern border. Attorney General Jeff [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that even if an EU country’s government has not authorized same-sex marriage, same-sex couples must still be offered the same residency rights as heterosexual couples. The issue arose because EU law permits the spouse of an EU citizen to obtain a residence permit for any member state [...]
In a new motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused Paul Manafort of using an encrypted messaging application to tamper with a witness. According to the motion, Manafort, former chairman of President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and a longtime associate identified as “Person A” [...]
The US Supreme Court held unanimously Monday in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling that under the US Bankruptcy Code, a statement about an individual’s financial assets may be discharged if it is not in writing, even if the statement was false, affirming the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh [...]
The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled Wednesday that citizens of Zimbabwe living outside of the country would be ineligible to vote in the nation’s upcoming July election. Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, or scattered around the world, and represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights filed suit arguing that the new constitution, which Zimbabwe adopted [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits brought by Kaspersky lab, a Russian-based software company whose products have been banned from US government use, seeking to overturn these bans. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the two complaints, one for failure to state a claim, and [...]
In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees, lawmakers in Denmark approved a bill Thursday adding a provision to the Danish criminal code that forbids a person from wearing face-concealing clothing in public mainly to include those wearing burqas. The prohibition does not apply to the covering of the face which, the law defines, as serving [...]
US President Donald Trump signed the “Right to Try” Act into law Wednesday, which authorizes terminally ill patients to seek access to certain unapproved investigational drugs directly from a drug sponsor or manufacturer. The law amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and also limits the use of clinical outcomes and liability arising from [...]
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy signed a bill into law Thursday that bans bump stocks—devices added to guns so that they may fire like automatic rifles. The law will ban “the sale or transfer, possession, manufacturing, or use of bumps stocks or other accessories to increase the rate of fire of a firearm.” The legislation defines [...]
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, passed a Constitutional amendment Thursday that merges a region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province along Pakistan’s northwest Afghanistan border. The move extends a number of political, administrative, and human rights reforms to the FATA, and extends jurisdiction of [...]
