The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in McBurney v. Young that Virginia has the right to exclude non-residents from accessing state records under its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . The court determined the law did not violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV of the US Constitution, as it did not [...]
The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Monday sentenced five men to prison for their roles in an organ trafficking syndicate. Lufti Dervishi and his son Arban Devishi were found guilty of “Trafficking in Persons and Organised Crime.” Sokol Hajdini, Islam Bytyqi and Sulejman Dulla were found guilty of charges of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Rothchild of Wayne State University Law School says the Supreme Court’s decision in Kirtsaeng could impact the scope of the patent exhaustion doctrine as well as seller-imposed limitations on ownership of purchased copyrighted items….
A former Canadian Guantanamo prisoner is planning to appeal his US terrorism conviction, his lawyer said Sunday. Omar Khadr , who spent 10 years in Guantanamo, is currently imprisoned in a maximum security prison in Ontario serving out six years of an eight-year sentence for war crimes. Khadr was born in Toronto and is the [...]
The Supreme Court of Ireland on Monday rejected an appeal by a paralyzed woman seeking to allow her partner to help her commit suicide. The appellant, Marie Fleming, suffers from end stage multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system, and as a result is paralyzed. Fleming challenged the constitutionality of Ireland’s 1993 Criminal Suicide [...]
A judge overseeing the International Criminal Court (ICC) case of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta requested on Saturday to be excused from hearing the case while leveling sharp criticism at prosecutors handling the case. Kenyatta and his deputy president William Ruto are facing ICC charges of crimes against humanity for their alleged involvement in violence following [...]
The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday rejected a second appeal by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and ordered him to remain in prison while an investigation into corruption charges continues. Mubarak was returned to prison earlier this month despite having served the maximum two years in temporary detention. A retrial has been ordered after Mubarak’s [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, urged Russia on Thursday to address concerns surrounding impartiality in the judicial system, while noting the positive strides taken recently. Knaul visited Russia as part of an investigation surrounding a report on judicial independence in Russia to be presented to the UN [...]
Several Egyptian opposition groups, including the Strong Egypt Party, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Egyptian Current Party and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions, filed a lawsuit on Saturday demanding the government open up the draft budget for public debate. The opposition groups originally requested Egypt’s upper house of [...]
A Russian court on Friday denied a request for parole by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist rock band Pussy Riot , so that she could look after her young daughter. In August Tolokonnikova and two other members of the group were sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism,” characterized by the court [...]
