JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane of the Syracuse University College of Law discusses the repercussions of certain UN member states’ use of force on a fellow member state… Within the United Nations paradigm, state-parties settle their disputes peacefully and only resort to the use of force as a last measure. Several weeks ago four [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago . The case revolves around whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5)(C) is a jurisdictional rule or a non-jurisdictional rule. The rule states that a motion to extend the time to file a notice of appeal cannot be granted [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday added to its docket two original jurisdiction cases concerning water rights. In Texas v. New Mexico , the court will determine whether New Mexico is in violation of the Rio Grande Compact and the Rio Grande Project Act by reducing Texas’ water supplies and apportionment of water. The complaint [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged Tuesday that Rwanda’s military routinely tortures unlawfully detained individuals through various different methods. The report alleges that Rwandan judges and prosecutors have been ignoring complaints from both current and former detainees in which they claimed they were tortured through beatings, electrical shocks, strangulation, and mock executions. Their actions, HRW argues, [...]
The State of Washington filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday over the decision to let employers deny insurance coverage for contraception on religious and moral grounds. Attorney General Bob Ferguson argues that the administration’s action violates both the First and Fifth Amendment. According to the complaint, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment [...]
In a brief order Tuesday evening, the US Supreme Court vacated the judgment in one of two pending challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting entry to the US from certain countries. The court remanded Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit with instructions to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Perfecto Caparas of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law discusses how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could face prosecution under international law… In the face of charges of ordering and condoning the murder of thousands of civilians by the Philippine National Police, President Rodrigo Duterte boasts that he is immune [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied certiorari in two cases concerning who can give permission to access a computer—an issue crucial to the determination of the meaning of the term “hacking.” One of these cases involved a Facebook suit against Cayman Islands-based Power Ventures, Inc. under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, denied certiorari to consider the last remaining conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee and former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, who was tried and convicted by a military commission created after September 11, 2001. Al Bahlul is reported to have taped [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Monday aimed at making drug prices for both public and private health plans more transparent. Beginning October 1, 2018, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development will be required to collect data from manufacturers and report to the California Research Bureau specified changes in manufacturing [...]
