UK’s High Court of Justice on Monday blocked a lawsuit against Google over claims it collected personal data from iPhone users. The suit claimed that Google had secretly tracked “the internet activity of Apple iPhone users,” and had sold the data that it had collected. Google was allegedly able to do this through a method [...]
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The Court of Appeal of Quebec decided on Wednesday that religious dress is to be allowed in the courtroom. The appeal arises out of a case where a judge refused to hear an Islamic woman in court “because she refused to remove her head scarf (hijab) in the courtroom and was therefore contravening the dress [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a net neutrality bill into law Sunday, drawing an immediate lawsuit from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . The suit alleges that the bill “unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet.” US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that “nder the Constitution, states do not regulate [...]
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that Democratic members of Congress may sue President Donald Trump over alleged violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Under the Foreign Emoluments Clause, federal officials, including the president, are not allowed to accept any foreign “present, Emolument, Office, or [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases Thursday. The first of these cases is Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority , which “tests the immunity of governmental ‘sue and be sued’ entities” and questions whether the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit used the correct rule in order to protect the Tennessee [...]
The Italian cabinet on Monday unanimously approved a decree that will make deporting migrants easier. The new bill would make it easier for migrants who have been found guilty of serious crimes to be deported. Previously, this could only be done after a long appeals process. The bill suggests six criteria for determining whether an [...]
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on Thursday urged Guatemala to “adopt all necessary measures to fully ensure that judges and magistrates perform their duties with full independence and guarantees.” The UN Special Rapporteur specifically referenced the government’s refusal to allow the head of the International Commission against Impunity in [...]
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado ruled Wednesday that US officials may not deny the passport application of an intersex individual based on the individual’s refusal to select a male or female gender marker. In September 2014 Dana Alix Zzyym applied for a US passport. Instead of checking the [...]
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Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Sunday ordered that Iván Velásquez, the head of the UN’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , be allowed back into the country. Velásquez had been banned from entering the country because of a “recommendation of the National Security Council, which accused the CICIG’s head of attacking Guatemala’s governability, public [...]
Lawmakers in Chile on Wednesday passed a gender identity law that allows transgender people over 14 to legally change their name and sex markers on official documents. The law passed in a 95-46 vote after five years of discussion. As a result, transgender people in Chile who are over the age of 14 can change [...]