Category: Law & Courts
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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.
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Meta has settled the states’ landmark case over teen social media addiction. Coverage put the figure at $16.7 billion, $17 billion and $18 billion — all in the same week. Here is what was actually agreed, and what changes on Facebook and Instagram.
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Five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his birthright citizenship order 6-3, President Trump signed a new one that cites the ruling itself. It has attracted remarkably little attention.
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A liquidation begun in the British Virgin Islands in 2011 has worked its way to a family home in Hampstead. An English judge has rejected the argument that Islamic custom made the house the wife’s property.