The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday that France had violated the right to life substantively, but not procedurally, for the death of a protester in the case of Fraisse and Others v. France. Lawyers for Fraisse’s family brought the case before the ECtHR. In the ruling, the court unanimously found that the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s injunction that blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order abrogating birthright citizenship. The rejection stated that the federal government had not made a “strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” as required by law. Circuit Judge [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicated a retreat from support of voting rights cases since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, according to a Votebeat report released Monday. The report notes that the US solicitor general, the government’s top litigator, asked the Supreme Court last month to allow the federal government to participate in oral [...]

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire brought the first legal action challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports on Wednesday. The amended complaint is an expansion of a lawsuit filed last August, after a state bill prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports was signed into law. Last September, [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

A federal judge in New Mexico granted a temporary restraining order Sunday to block the US government from transferring three detained Venezuelan migrants to Guantánamo Bay. The three men, currently being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, filed the restraining order earlier that day. Their request claims the risk of a [...]

President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed Sunday for the lifting of a temporary restraining order (TRO) granted over the weekend by Judge Paul Engelmayer. The TRO limited access of Treasury Department payment systems to only “civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties.” This notably excludes Elon Musk and his [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged Thursday that the US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights by failing to obtain free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in accordance with international law. The 133-page report determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitted the lithium [...]

Former chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit Wednesday, accusing President Donald Trump of breaking the law when he fired her last week. Wilcox claims the firing violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which only permits the removal of board members for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in [...]

A federal judge sentenced Bob Menendez, the former US senator for New Jersey, to 11 years in prison Wednesday. Additionally, he must forfeit over $900,000. Menendez was found guilty last year on 16 counts, including bribery, corruption, and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, after receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold [...]