The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered Friday that Zivko Budimir , president of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, be released from jail immediately. Budmir was arrested in April along with 19 other officials as part of a corruption investigation and crackdown. Budmir, who has been charged with accepting bribes to grant amnesty to numerous convicts, [...]
Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation in places of employment. According to media sources, the bill originally included protections for commercial transactions, housing, governmental services, and public accommodations, but the Senate voted to narrow to bill’s scope to employment last [...]
A group of UN independent experts on Friday urged South Asian countries to strengthen legislation to prevent caste-based discrimination . In South Asia, those members of society who are of low caste are referred to as “Dalits” or “untouchables.” The UN experts noted that Dalits endure “marginalization, social and economic exclusion, segregation in housing, limited [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday upheld the conviction and 28-year sentence for former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. In February 2011 Ciavarella was convicted by a jury in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania of racketeering, mail fraud, money laundering, [...]
African foreign ministers agreed Friday to request that Kenyan leaders accused of inciting violence following the 2007 elections stand trial in their home country rather than before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. This follows Tuesday’s report by the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission connecting the Kenyan leaders to the violence. The African [...]
Finnish telecommunications company Nokia filed suit against Taiwanese company HTC Thursday for selling products in the US that infringe Nokia’s patents on mobile technology. Three patents in question involve program products typically used in hand sets for a mobile phone. Thursday’s suit brings the total number of Nokia patents being asserted against HTC in courts [...]
Hobby Lobby, Inc. requested an exemption from the mandate to provide employees with coverage for contraceptives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in an en banc hearing before the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Thursday. The Green family, founders of Hobby Lobby and its sister company Mardel, contend [...]
The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and the Kosovo Police Special Operations Unit ROSU arrested five people Thursday on suspicion of war crimes in the 1998-1999 conflict . Although the names of the accused were not released, the lawyer for Sami Lushtaku announced that his client is among those arrested. Lushtaku [...]
US District Judge Denise Cote expressed a tentative view on Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be able to show at trial that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise the prices of e-books with five publishers. She said her view was based largely on material submitted as evidence. The [...]
The Afghan Parliament approved two new electoral laws Wednesday that will take effect in the elections next spring. According to Tolo News of Afghanistan , the statutes in question will provide a legal framework for the quarantine of ballot boxes and the creation of a complaints commission. Both houses of the Afghan Parliament have been [...]
