Ohio officials on Monday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling requiring Ohio’s three-day early voting to be available to military and civilians alike. Ohio Secretary of State John Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth District hoping to reinstate [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday narrowed the scope on a preliminary injunction against a 1972 Idaho law that makes it a felony to end one’s own pregnancy. Mother of three Jennie Linn McCormack was prosecuted in May 2011 under the criminal statute. McCormack filed suit in August of last [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged Venezuela on Tuesday to re-commit to the American Convention on Human Rights , the treaty that empowers the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) . Venezuela, under the edict of President Hugo Chavez , withdrew from the court in July, but had not officially withdrawn from [...]
The Supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia on Friday struck down a new West Virginia law that provides public financing for candidates in state Supreme Court elections. The case was brought directly to the court by a writ of mandamus by Allen Loughry, a Republican candidate seeking to use the funds who has been [...]
An attorney for former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld announced on Tuesday that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) awarded Birkenfeld $104 million for information leading to an agreement between UBS and the IRS for $740 million in fines and penalties for its role in helping US clients shelter assets from US tax liability. This is [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Jane Mansbridge of the Harvard Kennedy School and Chibli Mallat of the S.J. Quinney College of Law say that the international community ought to develop a system to trigger intervention when governments violently suppress nonviolent revolutionary efforts, so that revolutionaries are not encouraged to utilize violent means…
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Pinto, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the third article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Pinto explains why expanding the available exemptions to the New York Marriage Equality Act to include individuals could [...]
The M23 movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been responsible for numerous war crimes including summary executions, rapes and forced recruitment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. HRW based its findings on interviews with 190 victims, family members, witnesses and others during the time period between May and September, revealing that [...]
Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafiq was referred for trial Tuesday on corruption charges, according to the country’s authorities. Egypt’s last prime minister under the 30-year regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak , Shafiq stands accused of misusing public funds while in office as minister of civil aviation. The charges against him derived from his [...]
Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif died over the weekend at a hospital on the US Navy base after guards found him unconscious in his cell Saturday. Latif’s identification was originally being withheld until the US military could notify his family and his home country’s government. The guards who found Latif unconscious in [...]
