Articles Tagged with US Supreme Court

A judge in the UK has warned lawyers of the consequences for submitting court filings with fake cases generated by artificial intelligence (AI). In a judgment made available to the public on Friday, Dame Victoria Sharp considered two cases in which legal professionals were suspected of using AI involving non-existent citations in their submissions to [...]

Videos and reports from activists aboard the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship called the Madleen surfaced on their personal accounts Sunday night, showing Israeli authorities seizing the vessel as activists raised their hands in the air.  Shortly after the arrest footage was posted to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition X account, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the [...]

Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) of corruption and calling for an early election. The protest was organized by the country’s main opposition Popular Party (PP), after leaked audio recordings revealed a PSOE campaign to discredit the Central [...]

The Tokyo High Court on Friday overturned a district court ruling against the former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) which had ordered them to pay compensation of 13 trillion yen ($90 billion) for their failure to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The High Court’s ruling centered around TEPCO [...]

A US federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration can bar the Associated Press (AP) from some events and spaces in the White House. The opinion follows an AP lawsuit claiming the administration infringed upon the outlet’s First Amendment rights. Written by US Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, the 2-1 ruling stated [...]

A US federal judge granted approval Friday of a landmark $2.6 billion class action settlement that transforms college athletics by allowing schools to directly pay student-athletes for the first time in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history. In a released statement, NCAA president Charlie Baker said, “This is new terrain for everyone… Opportunities to drive [...]

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday against imposing a higher burden of proof for reverse discrimination lawsuits under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Court reversed on a case involving a heterosexual woman who claimed that she was denied promotion and demoted because of her sexual orientation. A lower court [...]

Progressive International members announced on Friday plans for an eight-day “Global March to Gaza” during which thousands of activists, doctors, artists, and citizens from 31 countries will march from Cairo, Egypt, to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in an effort to break Israel’s blockade on the Strip. Scheduled to begin on June 12, the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern Friday over a Zambian court’s interim injunction that blocks a media outlet from airing an investigation documentary on Chinese investments in Zambia. The nation’s High Court granted the order following a lawsuit filed by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Zambia against the media outlet News Diggers. [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and six other European media freedom organizations called on Poland’s newly elected president to urgently pursue reforms to uphold press freedom in the country. The coalition urged President-elect Karol Nawrocki to foster non-partisan cooperation in government in order to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) and adopt legal safeguards against [...]