José Miguel Vivanco , director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division, sent a letter to several heads of the Colombian government Sunday, urging them to implement legislative proposals of a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. A peace agreement between the two sides was signed on November 12, 2016. The [...]
Canada reached a major settlement on Friday with indigenous victims of the so-called Sixties Scoop , agreeing to pay C$800 million ($635m; £488m) to some 20,000 victims, $50 million of which will be used for reconciliation initiatives. “Sixties Scoop” refers to the practice in Canada of “scooping up” children of Aboriginal peoples from their families [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Monday its intention to repeal the Clean Power Plan , an Obama-era policy that worked to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt , will produce a formal order on Tuesday, which is expected to declare that plan exceeded federal law by setting [...]
The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a terminally ill individual’s petition for assistance to die, upholding the Suicide Act 1961 , which makes it illegal to assist in suicide. Noel Conway, who suffers from terminal motor neurone disease, argued that the Suicide Act 1961 is in conflict with Article 8 of the Human [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday passed bill S-226 , the “Magnitsky Act,” which would allow for the Canadian government to take “restrictive measures in respect of foreign nationals responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” These actions include sanctioning, freezing assets, or denying [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The parties involved in challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban order filed letter briefs with the US Supreme Court Thursday addressing whether the issue is moot in light of Trump’s September 24 proclamation that created new restrictions on entry to the US for citizens of eight [...]
The parties involved in challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban order filed letter briefs with the US Supreme Court Thursday addressing whether the issue is moot in light of Trump’s September 24 proclamation that created new restrictions on entry to the US for citizens of eight countries. The US government filed a brief arguing that [...]
The US Department of Treasury released a report Friday suggesting regulations and changes to current laws which affect the US Financial System. This report is in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13772 , which established “Core Principles” for the federal government to strive to within the financial market. The February 2017 order established [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist L. Ali Khan of the Washburn University School of Law discusses the battle over public education funding in Kansas… Since 2010, Kansas has been litigating the funding of K-12 public education. The Kansas Supreme Court has rendered four decisions repeatedly instructing the state legislature to provide adequate and equitable funding for Kansas [...]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Navient Corporation over unlawful student loan origination and servicing practices. The lawsuit alleges that Navient violated Pennsylvania’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law and the Consumer Financial Protection Law. These allegations include “peddling risky and expensive subprime loans [...]
