Foreign Policy and National Security
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The First Circuit on Friday backed a lower court’s ruling that Japan is the right place for a suit against General Electric brought by Japanese residents who suffered property losses in the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Ninth Circuit panel sent an immigration detainee’s coronavirus-based emergency release bid to a California district court on Thursday, though the dissenting judge said the appeals panel should have tossed the case by the man with no COVID-19 symptoms, asking “If he’s entitled to relief, who isn’t?”… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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President Donald Trump won an exit on Thursday from advocacy groups’ legal challenge to the White House’s diversion of federal funding for the southern border wall, with a D.C. federal judge also trimming claims against other elements of the administration… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A gay man who fled Ghana after he was outed and violently attacked will get a new chance to seek asylum in the United States, with the Third Circuit ruling that immigration judges bungled their analysis of whether the man faced persecution that qualifies for protection… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has opened a probe in response to petitions from U.S.-based metal producers that alleged potentially unfair practices in the aluminum trade involving 18 countries from across the globe… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 