The Russian Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the restriction of foreign ownership of media is legal. The court upheld a law restricting foreign ownership of media to twenty percent. The case came to the court “after arbitration courts declared a dual Russian-Dutch citizen’s 49-percent stake in a radio station illegal.” The court stated that the reason [...]
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected the appeal of a German couple who did not send their children to school. In 2012 the State Education Authority found that the couple “were deliberately and persistently refusing to send their children to school, thereby endangering the children’s best interests as they were growing up [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that South Carolina did not have standing to sue the United States Department of Energy over the termination of construction of a nuclear processing facility. Originally, South Carolina had sought to prevent the termination of the nuclear processing facility through two claims. [...]
Johnson & Johnson lost its motion Wednesday to reverse a $4.69 billion jury verdict against them. Johnson & Johnson had asked “that the jury verdict be thrown out on jurisdictional grounds and asked for separate trials for the plaintiffs, according to the order issued Wednesday.” However, the judge denied this motion. In response, “Johnson & [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration asylum restriction policies that prevented immigrants who were victims of gang or domestic violence in their home countries from seeking asylum. The ruling came as a result of a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies filed on behalf [...]
Singapore’s Supreme Court on Monday allowed a gay man to adopt his biological son. The son was conceived through a surrogate mother and born in the US. The man paid the surrogate mother USD $200,000 to carry and deliver the baby after learning that he and his partner would not be allowed to adopt in [...]
A Dutch district court on Monday denied Emile Ratelband’s request to change his date of birth to reflect the age that he says he feels, 49, rather than his actual age, 69. The court stated that its main reason in denying the request was that “unlike the situation with respect to a change in registered [...]
A UN human rights expert on Thursday called on the government of Ecuador to “protect the rights of indigenous peoples as a surge in demand for extractive resources and new development projects puts additional pressure on the indigenous population.” The expert “urged the Government to take action to build the plurinational and multicultural society that [...]
The UN Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances said on Monday that “a new law against enforced disappearances in Lebanon can be a major breakthrough” and urged that the law be implemented effectively in order “to give victims and their families access to truth and justice.” The law was passed on November 13, 2018, [...]
Voters in Taiwan voted against same-sex marriage in a referendum that took place during local elections Saturday. The referendum asked voters whether they thought that marriage in their civil code should be defined as between one man and one woman, and a majority voted that it should. Voters also voted to have a different process [...]
