The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk that the claim was moot because respondent “had no personal interest in representing putative, unnamed claimants, nor any other continuing interest that would preserve her suit from mootness.” The original question presented concerned whether an issue at the center of a lawsuit [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Ann Kronk of the University of Kansas School of Law evaluates the recent approval of a measure to permit same-sex marriages in the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians…
UK-based rights group Privacy International said Tuesday that it is suing the British government for refusing to divulge information concerning surveillance equipment sold by Gamma International . Gamma International is a software company whose FinFinisher software has been used in 25 countries including Bahrain. FinFisher is a Trojan horse program that evades anti-virus utilities and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Felipe Alberto Herrera, Northwestern Law School Class of 2013, discusses the effects of the recent educational reforms in Mexico…
US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation’s “highest officials” bear some of the responsibility, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Constitution Project , a bi-partisan legal advocacy and watchdog group. The Task Force on Detainee Treatment was established after US President Barack Obama announced in 2009 that [...]
A bipartisan group of US senators on Tuesday unveiled details of the long-awaited immigration reform bill that would remove the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants and provide a path to citizenship. Under the legislation, an undocumented immigrant would have the opportunity to become classified as a “Registered Provisional Immigrant” on the path [...]
A three-member appellate tribunal on Tuesday disqualified former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf from running in the upcoming parliamentary election for the remote northern district of Chitral. Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month after years in exile for the purpose of running in the parliamentary elections. Earlier this month, a judge authorized Musharraf to run in [...]
Kuwait opposition leader and former MP Mussallam Al Barrak was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for criticizing leader Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah , which is a crime under Kuwait’s constitution. Barrak was arrested in October after a public speech was found to contain remarks detrimental to the “social and [...]
Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday released a 113-page judgment upholding the results of the March presidential election. The court unanimously upheld the results last month but just released its reasoning, finding that the process was flawed but not illegal. The results of the March 4 election, in which President Uhuru Kenyatta won by 50.7 percent [...]
Ireland will hold a referendum on same-sex marriage after the Convention on the Constitution , voted Sunday to grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples. Article 46 of the Irish Constitution provides that any major constitutional change must be ratified by the electorate. Presently, civil partnerships are recognized and afforded some rights under the Civil [...]
