Fear of deportation prevents many migrant women in Belgium from seeking necessary protection from domestic violence, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Friday. The 57-page report, entitled “‘The Law was Against Me’: Migrant Women’s Access to Protection for Family Violence in Belgium,” found that women who immigrate to Belgium to join their [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Louise Lau, University of Texas School of Law Class of 2013, analyzes the effects that Lululemon’s design patent lawsuit against Calvin Klein might have on the fashion industry… In an industry that has traditionally accepted inspiration and appropriation as the status quo, Lululemon Athletica’s lawsuit against Calvin Klein Inc., speaks loudly to [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday rejected a third request for early release for former Bosnian Serb parliament speaker Momcilo Krajisnik . Krajisnik was convicted in 2006 of persecution, extermination, murder, deportation and inhumane acts during the 1992-95 Bosnian Civil War . He was sentenced to 27 years in a British [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Halbrook says that the Fifth Circuit’s decision in NRA v. BATFE misinterprets Second Amendment history and leads to absurd results…
JURIST Guest Columnist Clark Asay of The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law says that the European Union’s recent investigation of Google’s new privacy policy, along with several other EU data privacy initiatives, may impact US privacy regulation and practice….
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Thursday heard arguments regarding approval of a class-action settlement agreement between British Petroleum (BP) and various individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Attorneys on both sides urged Judge Carl Barbier to approve the settlement agreement, under which BP [...]
A federal judge at the US District Court for the District of Arizona sentenced Jared Lee Loughner to life in prison on Thursday for killing six people in the January 2011 Tucson shooting. The shooting also injured thirteen people, including former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) . Judge Larry A. Burns sentenced Loughner to serve seven [...]
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Malawi’s government on Thursday changed its position on a decision to suspend it laws barring same-sex marriage and homosexuality after being pressured by a number of churches within the strongly Christian country. Despite announcing a moratorium that would suspend the laws to allow the country to consider their permanent nullification, Malawai Minister of Justice Ralph [...]
A jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday ordered Apple to pay $368.2 million to a technology licensing company for infringing four patents related to private-network technology. In particular, the jury found that Apple’s FaceTime function, which is used on its iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mac computer [...]
