The Second Circuit revived a class action Wednesday against French bank BNP Paribas brought by refugees of Sudan’s ethnic-cleansing campaign who sought to hold the bank liable for claims that it helped a genocidal militia regime carry out the atrocities.
Read moreDivided 5-4 Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 40-year-old precedent that allowed states to be sued in the courts of another state.
Read moreThai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner, who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws. They could faith the death penalty.
Read moreFive members of a group pushing for Hawaiian sovereignty group were arrested after a hours-long seizure of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Thursday, and are accused of assaulting staff and prompting a building evacuation and lockdown by Honolulu police.
Read moreAn attorney for California’s tax agency on Wednesday told the Supreme Court justices a 1979 decision that allows a state to be sued in another state’s court without its consent has upended the relationship between the states that is central to the “genius” of the Constitution.
Read moreEnvironmental groups told a federal judge Thursday that in order to justify forging ahead with a new military base on Okinawa, the Department of Defense did a cursory job of evaluating effects on the endangered Okinawa dugong.
Read moreFour years after its aid of U.S.-sanctioned countries like the Sudan resulted in an $8.9 billion fine, BNP Paribas ducked a lawsuit Friday by refugees of the Sudan’s ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Read moreFacing criminal prosecution for harvesting valuable but critically overfished glass eels on their reservation, a Native American tribe asked a federal judge Wednesday to enjoin New York environmental regulators.
Read moreThe Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe claims in court that a Minnesota county is violating federal law by preventing its tribal law enforcement body from using police powers on its reservation.
Read moreTennessee sued the federal government Monday, claiming it violated the 10th Amendment by threatening the Volunteer State with Medicaid cuts unless it agrees to help fund the resettlement of refugees in the U.S.
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