A brave group of 2,000 women proved — collectively — that the right to a healthy environment had been violated by Switzerland’s failure to take effective action to restrain global warming, Sian Sutherland writes.
A climate academic has warned of a potential “competition” for water that could one day emerge between householders and farms.
In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a soldier's right to judicial independence is not compromised by appearing in front of a military judge.
Donald Trump will be allowed to skip court in May for Barron Trump’s high school graduation, a judge ruled on Tuesday, April 30, after the former president petitioned the judge to take a leave of absence for the occasion.
A Hong Kong court has upheld a lower judge’s decision that the city’s courts do not have jurisdiction over the national security committee, effectively barring media mogul Jimmy Lai from challenging the government after it forbid him from hiring a British lawyer for his trial. Three Court of Appeal judges sided with the High Court […]
The High Court of Dominica has overturned a colonial-era law banning same-sex relations between consenting adults after a gay man filed a lawsuit claiming the ban was unconstitutional. The complainant, […]
A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia's and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid. Both states appealed separate lower court rulings that found the denial...
A poll shows 45% of U.S. adults say they’ve become more concerned about climate change over the past year.
"If I have to put a disclaimer on satire, it defeats the whole purpose and goes to the heart of my right under 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(g)," Kamra’s lawyer Navroz Seervai argued in response to govt's proposal to add a "disclaimer" to satirical content.
Sir, – Amid the disconcerting developments in European environmental
Almost immediately after the judge in his New York hush money criminal trial ruled that he was in contempt of court, Donald Trump's campaign sent out a fundraising email in an attempt to capitalize on the ruling. “A Democrat judge JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!” the email sent out on Tuesday read, according to Politico. “I was fined $9,000 for 9 gag order violations. THEY WANT TO SILENCE ME! They think they can BLEED ME DRY and SHUT ME UP, but I’ll NEVER stop fighting for YOU," read the...
In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the Supreme Court have made of redistricting law. The result remains a mess, but at least it gets rid of districts that are patently absurd. The back story […]