The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday ruled that plaintiffs who were challenging an anti-terrorism law on grounds that it could stifle freedom of the press lacked standing to challenge the law, but noted that there are parts of the law that should be reviewed. The National Defense Authorization Act for [...]
Chinese activist and lawyer Xu Zhiyong was arrested by Chinese authorities on Wednesday on suspicion of having “gathered crowds to disrupt public order.” Xu, a law lecturer at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and founder of the Open Constitution Initiative (Gongmeng) , was placed under house arrest on April 12. Xu’s arrest come [...]
A judge for the US District Court Central District of California on Tuesday denied a motion by McGraw-Hill Companies and Standard & Poor’s Financial Services (S&P) , a unit of McGraw Hill Financial, to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the US government. The five billion dollar lawsuit accuses S&P of misrepresenting the credit risk of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied a motion by Guantanamo Bay detainees to end forced feeding of hunger-striking prisoners. The petitioners maintained that the practice was cruel and that it would interfere with their religious practices during the month of Ramadan, which began on July 8 [...]
Same-sex marriage will be legal in England and Wales after legislation received final approval from Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday. The House of Commons gave final approval of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill on Tuesday. The original legislation was introduced in January and will effectively extend the application of the Marriage Act of 1949 [...]
Prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Wednesday sentenced the secretary-general of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) to death for the kidnapping and killing of people during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Ali Ahsan Mojaheed was found guilty of five charges , including those of kidnapping and killing a journalist, a music director [...]
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled in favor of a transgender woman who endured physical and verbal harassment during her employment as a federal contractor in Maryland. The woman, who has not been publicly identified , filed a complaint last year under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Brice Biggins, George Mason University School of Law Class of 2014, discusses the rarity of treason charges in the US and argues that Edward Snowden should be charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday urged Nigerian authorities to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in the Darfur conflict. Al-Bashir is currently in Nigeria participating in the Special Summit of the African Union on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Nigeria is a state [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar , Tomas Ojea Quintana, on Tuesday commended the Myanmar government for disbanding the Nasaka , a border patrol force that had been operating in Rakhine state . The Nasaka have been accused of numerous humans rights violations against the local Rohingya population, including extrajudicial [...]
