The full Federal Court of Australia ruled Tuesday that Google Inc. engaged in advertising practices that were deceptive and misleading, resulting in a violation of the country’s consumer protection laws. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought the case against Google challenging an advertising practice where advertisements were generated that indicated that by clicking [...]
Solitary confinement conditions in Arizona’s maximum security prisons violate international human rights law, according to a report published Monday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report describes isolation conditions in maximum security prisons run by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) , especially the Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC)-Eyman in Florence, Arizona. According to the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Iryna Dasevich is a LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has interned in the police department and the district court in Turnopil, Ukraine. In the first entry of a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Dasevich analyzes the differences [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Rehberg v. Paulk that government officials have the same immunity for grand jury testimony under a 42 USC § 1983 action as they do for trial testimony. Petitioner Rehberg was indicted three separate times for aggravated assault, battery and making harassing phone calls, largely based upon the [...]
Settlement negotiations between Oracle and Google mediated by the US District Court for the Northern District of California broke down on Friday. The case is now set to head for trial on April 16. Oracle has alleged that Google’s use of Java in its Android OS violates Oracle’s patents and copyrights. Google and Oracle had [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David Frakt of the Barry University School of Law says that the double standard concerning the killing of US citizens developed as a result of overseas anti-terrorism efforts and is more recently apparent in the domestic “stand your ground” self defense laws…
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington that a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when he was strip searched upon entering jail. Petitioner Albert Florence was arrested in New Jersey after being pulled over when it was discovered that there was an [...]
Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General on Monday granted a request for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment outside of the jail in which she is being imprisoned. Tymoshenko will be able to receive treatment in Ukrainian facilities for back pain after she suffered a slipped disk . Reports indicate Tymoshenko [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William Maurer, an Executive Director for the Institute for Justice, says that when the government adopts a “sentence first, trial later” mentality and does not allow for judicial review of administrative action, it grievously violates the Due Process Clause…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a letter Monday to the chief of staff of the Philippines military, Lt. Gen. Jesse Dellosa, urging the Philippines to act on multiple human rights abuses and hold violators accountable. HRW acknowledges that the reputation of the military has increased with current President Benigno Aquino III in office, but claims [...]
