The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Freeman v. Quicken Loans, Inc. the court heard arguments on whether Section 8(b) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) prohibits a real estate settlement services provider from only charging an unearned fee when the fee is divided between two or more [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday in Kawashima v. Holder that, under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the making of false tax returns is a crime involving fraud or deceit, which can result in deportation, when the government suffers a loss of more than $10,000. Petitioners Akio and Fusako Kawashima are natives [...]
JURIST Senior Editor Edward SanFilippo, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, discusses how Pennsylvania House Resolution 535 reveals an underlying tension between the Establishment Clause and free speech… (His opinions are not intended to represent those of JURIST)
Pakistan authorities pledged Tuesday to arrest former president Pervez Musharraf for his alleged involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto . Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the “government is moving for his red notice” which is an Interpol international arrest warrant. Interpol did not yet provide any comments concerning this issue. [...]
A panel of experts representing the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday denounced the arrest of 16 people by Syrian forces last Thursday, calling for their release. On Thursday afternoon, Syrian forces raided the offices of a human rights organization in Syria, arrested 16 people there, blindfolded them and [...]
The Tribunale Ordinario di Roma on Monday ordered nine alleged Somali pirates to be tried in Italy’s first international piracy trial on charges of attacking the Montecristo, an Italian cargo vessel, off the coast of Somalia last year. Currently being held in Italy, five of the suspected pirates will be judged in the criminal division [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Howes v. Fields that a US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit categorical rule that all private questioning of prisoners about outside events is per se custodial, requiring Miranda warnings to be given, is not clearly established by Supreme Court precedent. The court also declined to [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nebraska on Monday struck down a provision in Fremont, Nebraska law that denies housing permits to illegal immigrants, saying the ordinance violates federal law. In the ruling, Judge Laurie Smith Camp also upheld part of the Fremont law that requires employers to verify the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday criticized Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (FTG) and African Union forces (AMISOM) for failing to stop the unlawful recruitment of children as soldiers, forced marriage and rape. HRW released a report , “No Place for Children: Child Recruitment, Forced Marriage, and Attacks on Schools in Somalia,” based mainly on interviews [...]
The chief prosecutor in the case against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in his closing remarks on Monday again asked the presiding judge, Ahmed Refaat, to give the death penalty to Mubarak, former interior minister Habib El Adly and four of his aides accused of ordering the killing of anti-government protesters last year. Mustapha Suleiman, [...]
