The US Department of Defense announced Monday the transfer of the Biden administration’s first detainee out of the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay. Abdul Latif Nasir was repatriated to his native country of Morocco after being recommended for discharge from the prison in 2016 but nevertheless remained at Guantánamo Bay during the Trump presidency. [...]
A federal judge has ruled that San Francisco police officer Chris Samayoa will face a trial by jury for a civil case brought against him for shooting and killing a man fleeing from a stolen minivan in 2017. On December 1, 2017, Samayoa, at the time a rookie San Francisco police officer, was riding in [...]
The Nepal Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives for the second time in five months and ordered the appointment of Sher Bahadur Deuba as Prime Minister. Nepal plunged into political crisis on December 20 after President Bidya Bhandari dissolved Nepal’s 275-member lower house and announced new election dates of April 30 [...]
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Tuesday upheld politician Geert Wilders’ conviction for insulting Moroccans at a campaign rally in 2014. In 2016, Geert Wilders was convicted of inciting discrimination after he promised to lower the number of Morrocans in the Netherlands at a political rally that occurred in March, 2014. Wilders’ supporters were [...]
The EU Commission on Monday adopted two adequacy decisions, recognizing the level of protection of the United Kingdom’s data protection laws as “essentially equivalent” with EU laws. This decision will allow the EU to UK data flow to continue even after Brexit. In mid-February of this year, the Commission published two draft adequacy decisions and began [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Lange v. California that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always or categorically qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying warrantless entry into a home. Arthur Gregory Lange was driving home when a California highway patrol officer began following him with the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded a shareholder class action suit against Goldman Sachs, sending the case back to the lower court to determine whether alleged misstatements by Goldman Sachs were too general to have affected its stock price. The suit, filed in 2011, alleged that Goldman Sachs artificially inflated its share [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to strike down North Carolina’s statewide abortion restrictions. For the past 140 years, North Carolina has criminalized the “procurement or administration of abortion as a felony.” In 1967, the state enacted an exception to the abortion ban that permitted [...]
The US Supreme Court held on Monday that sentence reduction under the First Step Act is available only if an offender’s prior conviction for a crack cocaine offense triggered a mandatory minimum sentence. In 2018 Congress passed the First Step Act, which made previous sentencing reforms that reduced the sentencing disparity to 18 to 1, retroactive. Under [...]
A US federal judge on Friday overturned California’s 32-year-old ban on assault weapons, describing the ban as a “30-year-old failed experiment” and prompting a sharp retort from the state’s governor and attorney general. Judge Roger Benitez of the US District Court for the Southern District of California concluded that the ban on assault weapons infringed [...]
