An initiative to repeal California’s death penalty qualified Monday for the November ballot after receiving 500,000 signatures. If approved by voters, the Savings, Accountability, and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE California Act) would overhaul the death penalty system in California. It will not only change all death sentences to a sentence of life without [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank . The issue is whether a debtor may propose a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan that sells unencumbered assets without allowing secured creditors to “credit bid,” if they can provide the creditor with an indubitable equivalent of to the claim [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor said Tuesday that they are monitoring the situation in Mali for potential crimes under the ICC’s jurisdiction. The statement notes that Mali has ratified the Rome Statute giving the ICC jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity that may have occurred since fighting began [...]
Egypt’s ruling army on Tuesday approved a law drafted by the Egyptian Parliament which bans certain candidates from the upcoming presidential elections . The law was passed early in April and prevents anyone who held a rank of party leader or higher during the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak from running for president for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in Wood v. Milyard that federal courts of appeals, like district courts, have the authority—though not the obligation—to raise a forfeited timeliness defense on their own initiative in exceptional cases. The court had been asked to decide if the prosecution failing to raise a statute of limitations argument [...]
The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday welcomed a report published by the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) which found that ordinances criminalizing homelessness may violate human rights as well as the Fourth and Eighth Amendments . The report condemns the criminalization [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anna Heatherington, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the fourth entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Heatherington analyzes the barriers to Russia’s membership in the World Trade Organization… After nearly 18 years [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Crane of the University of Michigan Law School says that unless the government can prove that the publishers actually agreed on e-book prices or a formula for price setting, the lawsuit will be more difficult because of a recent Supreme Court ruling…
JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Bochenek, Director of Law & Policy for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and Kyle Knight, a Fulbright Scholar, say that Nepal’s recognition of a third gender is an important fundamental right and the key to ensuring other fundamental rights for transgender individuals and those with a different gender identity… On [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Caroline Mala Corbin of the University of Miami School of Law says the Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act denies equal access to basic human necessities and relegates same-sex couples to second class status under the pretense of religious freedom…
