Democratic US lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday to restore net neutrality. The bill is titled the “Save the Internet Act of 2019” and would repeal an order issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It would also prohibit the FCC from reissuing the order and from issuing an order “that is substantially the same” as [...]
The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesdayapproved a bill to legalize marijuana. The bill seeks to allow law enforcement to “focus on violent and property crimes.” It also seeks to generate “revenue for education and other public purposes,” and additionally cites individual freedom as an interest that the New Hampshire House of Representatives is [...]
A bill that would ban abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat has been moved for a full house vote in Tennessee. The bill proposes a change to the current Tennessee laws on abortion. In particular, the bill prohibits abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. The bill provides an exception for medical emergencies [...]
A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday urged Iran to halt the execution of a man who committed a crime when he was 15 years old. Mohammad Kalhori, “was sentenced to death for killing his teacher when he was 15 years old.” Recently, it has been reported that his family was told to [...]
Judge Lorna Schofield of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday rejected Credit Suisse Group AG’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the bank of defrauding shareholders. The lawsuit, brought by pension and retirement plans, accuses Credit Suisse of “defrauding shareholders about its risk appetite and risk management before [...]
The American Bar Association issued Formal Opinion 485 Thursday, which states that judges who perform marriages as a “mandatory obligation of judicial office may not decline to perform marriages of same-sex couples.” The opinion comes after the 2015 Supreme Court decision, which held that states are not allowed to refuse “to license marriages between individuals [...]
UN rights experts on Wednesday urged Russia to “act urgently to protect the rights of people who are, or are perceived to be, lesbian, gay or bisexual in Chechnya, and investigate allegations of human rights abuses including two reported deaths.” The experts expressed concern over reported arrests of people “who are, or are perceived to [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of appeals from the government against several respondents who said that they were harmed by the disclosure of their relatively minor offenses. The case involved several respondents who had “all been convicted or received cautions or reprimands in respect of relatively minor offending.” While their records only included [...]
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in California ruled Tuesday that a California Supreme Court ruling overturning cases where a court reporter was not provided “applies retroactively to all cases” that are “not yet final on appeal.” The previous California Supreme Court ruling held that “an official court reporter, or other valid means to create [...]
New York lawmakers on Tuesday passed Senate Bill S240, which is also known as the Reproductive Health Act and expands abortion rights. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law Tuesday evening. The Reproductive Health Act was made with the intent “to prevent the enforcement of laws or regulations that are not in furtherance of [...]
