Prominent Egyptian blogger and activist Ahmed Douma was arrested Tuesday according to a posted tweet. According to Reuters, Douma has been detained in connection with violence at a protest over the weekend outside a courthouse where activist and leader of the April 6 youth movement Ahmad Maher turned himself in to police following the issuing [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a federal law that prohibits corporate and campaign advertising on public radio and television. In a 9-2 ruling the court held that such advertisements threatened the educational missions of public media, and that the government has a substantial interest in preserving the “essence [...]
A French court on Monday ordered a trial for German car maker Daimler AG and French industrial conglomerate Lagardere SCA, shareholders in Airbus’ parent European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. (EADS) , in an insider trading investigation dating back to 2006. EADS is a global pan-European aerospace and defense corporation and military contractor worldwide. Seven [...]
The High Court of Australia on Tuesday decided to rule next week on the law allowing gay marriage in Canberra . The nation’s first same sex weddings can take place this weekend. The law was passed by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in October and was challenged the following day by the federal government. [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism Ben Emmerson on Monday stated that he plans to launch an investigation into the surveillance activities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) . Emmerson posed questions regarding the political and legal issues springing from the revelations of Edward Snowden and the intelligence [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s new gun-control law , enacted in response to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. The lawsuit was brought by the Connecticut-based firearms trade association National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) . The ruling [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in United States v. Woods , a case concerning an offsetting-option tax shelter, marketed to high-income taxpayers in the 1990s. The court was asked to determine whether the penalty for tax underpayments attributable to valuation misstatements under 26 USC § 6662 of the Internal Revenue Code is applicable to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stuart Ford of The John Marshall Law School argues that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia provides for fair, non-political trials, which are central to the success of the court …
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday delivered a “mixed report” on human rights progress around the world , highlighting advances in some areas and alarm in others. “Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear,” Pillay stated during a press conference in Geneva, discussing the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic [...]
