JURIST Guest Columnist Ruthann Robson of the CUNY School of Law argues that requiring manufacturers to label clothing as “sweat-free” is feasible under the First Amendment…
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the US Trade Representative (USTR) can legally withhold classified documents regarding free trade negotiations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . US District Court Judge Richard Roberts ruled last year that the document should be released to the Center for [...]
A Chinese court in Huairou on Sunday sentenced Liu Hui, brother-in-law of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo , to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud. The verdict is seen by many as severe and is widely believed to be an act of political persecution and retaliation for allegedly [...]
Mohamed Kamel Al-Rashidi, the presiding judge for the retrial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Friday barred lawyers representing victims’ families from participating in the hearings. This ruling was based on the decision to separate Mubarak’s criminal trial from a civil case for damages, which means that lawyers of victims’ families will not be [...]
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday directed the Pakistan Foreign Office to contact US Ambassador Richard Hogland to criticize US drone strikes. Sharif’s comments came hours after a drone strike in North Waziristan killed several people . Sharif, who was sworn into office two days ago, communicated that Pakistan disapproves of the drone strikes [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson on Friday urged the Obama administration to provide more clarity on its counterterrorism policies. While Emmerson’s office recently released a statement strongly in favor of the new policies laid out in a speech by US President Barack Obama, this statement reiterates the need for more [...]
US District Judge David Campbell on Thursday refused to reconsider stopping an order by Governor Jan Brewer denying driver’s licenses to young immigrants who have been granted work permits. Campbell has yet to schedule a trial on the merits of the contention that the policy instituted by Arizona’s Department of Transportation is illegal. Until such [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, on Thursday emphasized in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that efforts to mask the human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory cannot disguise how Israel’s actions are endangering Palestinians’ daily lives. Falk observed [...]
The Obama administration on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court to limit the scope of its review of the case challenging the president’s power to temporarily fill vacancies in government offices. The government laid out its arguments limiting the scope of the case in the reply brief filed in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel [...]
Cambodia’s National Assembly unanimously approved a bill on Friday making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed the Khmer Rouge regime. The bill passed while minority leaders were excluded from the legislature. Critics including Human Rights Watch (HRW) allege the law is merely a ploy to paint the opposition as sympathetic to the [...]
