A military judge on Wednesday ordered the US government to submit reports on Guantanamo Bay prison conditions and removed restrictions on communications between lawyers and detainees in a case involving five Guantanamo prisoners related to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Army Col. James Pohl will review more than 10 years’ worth of reports by the International [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Srishti Miglani, St. Louis University School of Law Class of 2015, discusses the impact of Medicare Expansion… The uninsured cried and the states rejoiced as the “gun to the head” was removed by the US Supreme Court when it held that Congress could not penalize the states by removing all funding for [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday criticized Hungary for failing to protect the rights of female victims of domestic abuse. The report claims that women who were abused by their partners face difficulties in obtaining protection and other related services. HRW found that traditional social views of women’s roles and the acceptance of domestic violence [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Town of Greece v. Galloway the court heard arguments on whether legislative prayer violates the First Amendment , specifically the Establishment Clause. On appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , the matter is a conflict between the unconstitutionality [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay , urged the Bangladesh government on Wednesday not to carry out the death sentences of 152 paramilitary soldiers under reports of due process violations leading up to the trial. Pillay claims the soldiers, members of the Border Guard Bangladesh on trial for their involvement in a 2009 [...]
Cross-examination of the Pakistani-based businessman responsible for selling the boat engine used by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was held on Wednesday before Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court. The merchant, Mohammed Ali, sold the boat engine to the 10 LeT terrorists, which then allowed the clandestine group to reach the shores of Mumbai [...]
The city of Detroit on Tuesday asked Judge Steven Rhodes to approve a plan where the city will borrow $350 million in order to pay down interest rates and improve city services. The loan was approved by Barclays PLC but requires judicial approval under Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code . The $350 million would [...]
The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters on Wednesday upheld its September ruling to ban the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and confiscate all assets of the Islamist group. Earlier this week the Egyptian authorities formed a committee composed of judicial, security and intelligence officials to collect inventory of the Muslim Brotherhood’s assets, including [...]
Colorado voters on Tuesday approved Proposition AA , which levies a tax on all sales of recreational marijuana in the state. The tax will consist of a 15 percent excise tax that will go to fund public school construction projects and a 10 percent state sales tax, a portion of which will be directed back [...]
The genocide trial for former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will continue in January 2015, according to a Guatemalan court official. In May Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule and was sentenced by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Jasmine Barrios [...]
