The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an order Monday dismissing its review of two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s controversial voter ID law , leaving state appellate courts to decide whether to lift an injunction against the law. In the two cases, NAACP v. Walker and League of Women Voters v. Walker , the plaintiffs assert that Wisconsin’s [...]
The lower chamber of the Malaysian Parliament on Tuesday approved a law aimed at replacing the country’s controversial Internal Security Act of 1960 (ISA) , which currently allows for indefinite detention of terror suspects, dissidents and political opponents. Parliament introduced the legislation , known as the Security Offences Act of 2012, earlier this month. The [...]
Danish authorities failed to examine possible racist motivations behind an attack on an Iraqi refugee family in Denmark in 2004, according to an opinion published by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) . Iraqi-born Mahali Dawas, his wife and eight children were attacked in June 2004 in their home in Denmark [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. on the breadth of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regarding pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) as well as the Secretary of Labor’s interpretation of the act. Circuits are split on whether PSRs are considered “outside salespersons” for the purposes of FLSA. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anna Udartsova is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has interned for the public prosecutor’s office in Donetsk, Ukraine. In the third entry of a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Udartsova examines the effectiveness of Ukraine’s new [...]
Google, Inc. was fined $25,000 on Friday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the company’s failure to cooperate with the a federal investigation. Google incurred the fine by refusing to disclose information on its alleged collection of personal information without permission during its Street View project. The FCC imposed the fine finding that Google [...]
The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Monday released its 9-6 decision dismissing seven suits filed against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that challenged the constitutionality of the declaration of martial law she made in 2009. The court also determined that the suits were rendered moot because Arroyo lifted Proclamation No. 1959 after eight days, thus [...]
The US Supreme Court declined review in the case of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Monday. The court, without any comment, allowed to stand the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , which ruled the errors were harmless and rejected Skilling’s challenge to his conviction. Skilling’s attorney believed the [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to determine whether, under the Copyright Act , a copyrighted work obtained legally outside the US may be sold in the US without the copyright owner’s permission. Defendant and Thai national Supap Kirtsaeng resold foreign-manufactured textbooks in the US. The [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mirriam Kutha is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she is specializing in agricultural and food law. Here she discusses the benefits of international harmonization of food trade standards… It is not news that we are living in a globalized world. If you are looking for [...]
