The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down several provisions of Alabama’s controversial immigration law on Monday while upholding a few sections of the law. The court also rejected part of Georgia’s immigration law . The appeals court blocked four sections of HB 56, including a provision that requires public schools to [...]
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced on Monday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved the state’s new voter identification law . The DOJ found that the new law does not violate the Voting Rights Act . Virginia had previously required ID at the polls but had allowed citizens to vote without ID if [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday rejected Argentina’s attempt to prevent bondholders from acquiring bank documents regarding the country’s assets outside US territory. To no avail, Argentina asserted that its sovereign immunity was affected by a September 2011 ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District of New [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday dismissed a challenge by former Ivory Coast president and alleged war criminal Laurent Gbagbo that the court lacks jurisdiction to try him. Gbagbo is being charged with crimes against humanity relating to violence following the 2010 elections in which Gbagbo lost but refused to cede power. Specifically, the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary L. Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, says that the Defense of Marriage Act does not serve a legitimate government purpose and must be struck down by the courts…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists filed a lawsuit against Russian authorities Monday in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . The founders of Pride House in Sochi filed the lawsuit seeking €200,000 over the Russian Justice Ministry’s refusal to register Pride House for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games . Justice Svetlana [...]
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a state law requiring all public officials to be proficient in English is constitutional. The defendant in the case, Alejandrina Cabrera, was a city council candidate in the largely Spanish-speaking Arizona town of San Luis. Cabrera argued that her English was good enough for San Luis because [...]
Spokespersons for the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) about a recently passed law in Australia that will reopen offshore detention centers used to process migrants and asylum-seekers who arrive in the country by sea. A spokesperson for the High Commissioner on Human [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday rejected a settlement proposed by Facebook in a class action lawsuit over the social networking company’s “Sponsored Stories” program. The lawsuit accuses Facebook of appropriating the names, photographs and identities of users through the Sponsored Stories program to advertise products [...]
The government of Japan announced on Saturday that it will file a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over an ongoing territorial dispute with South Korea concerning a group of islands. The disputed islands, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, are believed to contain valuable natural [...]
