The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the United States Department of Labor overstepped its authority when it increased the minimum salary level for exempt employees from $23,660 annually to $47,476 annually. The court found that Congress had intended to exempt employees who work in a “bona fide [...]

Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Friday to invalidate the recent presidential election. President Uhuru Kenyatta was reelected after winning 54 percent of the votes in the recent election, which was held on August 8. The petition , filed on August 18 by Raila Odinga, who won 44 percent of the vote, alleged that the election [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Thursday expressed grave concern for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as the “cycle of violence” against them worsens. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh and nearly 18,000 more are attempting the same in response to the violent outbreak that ensued in Myanmar last week. Military action against this Muslim [...]

Ohio Governor John Kasich , Republican, and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper , Democrat, sent a letter to Congress Thursday proposing a plan to preserve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to stabilize the healthcare market . The governors suggest preservation of the ACA’s unpopular individual mandate provision, noting that it may be the “most important incentive [...]

Senior District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California on Thursday blocked a lawsuit filed by the state of Wyoming against Volkswagen AG (VW) over the diesel emission scandal. The court determined that because Volkswagen’s illegal conduct occurred during the manufacturing process and impacted the US on a national level, the Environmental Protection [...]

The Supreme Court of Florida on Thursday denied a petition by State Attorney Aramis Ayala challenging Governor Rick Scott’s power to reassign her death penalty eligible cases. Ayala announced in March of this year that she would no longer be seeking the death penalty in cases handled by her office. In response, Scott issued numerous [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Wednesday temporarily blocked the implementation and enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4) , which sought to ban so-called “sanctuary cities.” Judge Orlando Garcia enjoined the state of Texas from enforcing, endorsing or otherwise implementing various sections of SB4 that would [...]

Thailand’s Supreme Court on Thursday cleared former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his then-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban of murder and attempted murder during a crackdown in 2010 on anti-government protesters. More than 90 people were killed during the crackdown. The court affirmed the two lower courts’ decision that the Department for Special Investigation, which brought the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, critically analyzes Trump’s “America First” foreign policy… “The existence of `system’ in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature….Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others.” &#8212 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man The cumulative jurisprudential [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a former West Point cadet’s lawsuit alleging that superior officers violated her rights when she was allegedly raped by a fellow cadet. Plaintiff Jane Doe alleged that her Fifth Amendment right to equal protection was violated. In a 2-1 opinion, the court concluded [...]