JURIST Guest Columnist Nicole Huberfeld of the University of Kentucky College of Law says that the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA relied on a strange reading of the law, where the Medicaid expansion was deemed to be both a part of the Medicaid Act and not [...]
Google called Friday for the dismissal of a class action lawsuit accusing the company of infringing upon authors’ copyrighted works when it scanned books for its digital library. In a filing with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , Google argued that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the Authors Guild [...]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Friday that four men responsible for killing seven UN officials during an armed conflict near the border town of Tai were arrested in Liberia . The seven UN peacekeepers, all from Niger, were killed in a cross-border raid in early June. The attack was believed to be directed at [...]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of the Sarayaku Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon when the state allowed the Argentine oil company CGC to encroach on Sarayaku traditional lands in the early 2000s without the Indigenous People’s consultation. The court found that the Ecuadorian state [...]
Alaska Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell issued a regulation on Thursday that allows transgender individuals to change the sex indicator on their driver’s licenses without undergoing surgery. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Alaska on behalf of a transgender woman, KL, who was told by the Department of [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Friday expressed concern about an announcement that the Iraqi Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentences of 196 individuals in the Anbar province of Iraq. Heyns said he was concerned about the growing number of prisoners sentenced to death in the country and the lack [...]
Russia’s Federal Arbitration Court in Tyumen on Friday ordered British Petroleum (BP) to pay 100 billion rubles (US$3.1 billion) in damages to TNK-BP, BP’s 50-50 joint venture with Alfa Access Renova (AAR) , a consortium representing four Russian billionaire tycoons. Minority shareholders of TNK-BP brought a lawsuit against BP alleging that the venture suffered financial [...]
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy on Friday renewed her call to transfer Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee and convict Omar Khadr to his home country of Canada. Coomaraswamy said it was important to focus on rehabilitation of child soldiers like Khadr, who was arrested in Afghanistan at age 15 [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court decision to impose restrictions on cigarette makers for violating federal racketeering laws. The appellate court said that the US District Court for the District of Columbia did not err when it ruled in 2006 that numerous tobacco companies [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday expressed concern about the continued violence and human rights violations prevalent in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since clashes began between its Buddhist and minority Rohingya Muslim communities in May. Pillay said that independent reports alleging “discriminatory and arbitrary responses by security forces, and even their instigation [...]
