Category: Law & Courts
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A federal agency has found Cisco violated the civil rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim employees, after an internal chat platform filled with abuse. The retaliation allegation may be the more serious half.
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New Mexico’s former House Democratic floor leader was convicted of diverting education funds. It is the latest in a run of cases in one small, unsalaried legislature — and it stopped at the state line.
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US customs found forced-labour indicators at one of the world’s biggest bicycle makers and stopped its Taiwanese exports. Taiwan issued forced-labour guidelines afterwards. Researchers had documented the problem for years.
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Six members of Taiwan’s legislature are facing corruption proceedings this term, across both major parties. One first-instance sentence of seven years, one conviction overturned on appeal — and almost no coverage outside Taiwan.
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An Al Jazeera investigation found 17 companies linked to Israeli settlements hold 125 UK public-sector contracts worth £2.129bn. The money is not going to settlements. The legal question is narrower, and harder.
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A San Francisco judge found the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic illegal and retaliatory. The company had refused to let its models be used for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. The wider question — who sets the limits on military AI — is still open.
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Government lawyers raised demolition of the national memorial to President Kennedy as a possible consequence if the administration cannot add Trump’s name to the building. What that argument is, and what it isn’t.
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An ICE agent charged with wounding a Venezuelan man in Minnesota was released in Texas after a judge blocked the extradition. Interstate extradition is supposed to be an administrative formality. Why this one wasn’t.
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The publisher, editor-in-chief and a reporter at Stars and Stripes are suing Pete Hegseth and two Pentagon officials to stop their firings. The paper is funded by the Defense Department and legally independent of it. That contradiction is now before a judge.
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European football’s governing body is preparing a criminal complaint in Switzerland against Gianni Infantino over the abandoned plan to sell a stake in the World Cup. The evidence is being gathered through American courts.