The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it is reviving a provision of the federal civil asset forfeiture program, which was suspended in September 2015. The DOJ is reviving a portion of this program in response to President Donald Trump’s order to reduce crime because asset forfeiture diminishes organized crime. Attorney General [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dhruv Sharma of National Law University, Delhi discusses the tense relationship between India and Pakistan magnified due to recent events … On May 8 2017, the President of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”), exercising his powers under Rule of the Court 74(4), forwarded a request to the government of Pakistan to [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed in part a ruling by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii concerning the scope of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The state of Hawaii filed a brief on Tuesday in response to the government’s request that the US Supreme Court clarify who can enter the [...]
UN Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday expressed concerns that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has committed and will continue to commit summary executions of men that have been taken prisoner. Through a spokesperson, Hussein stated that the alarm over the worsening human rights conditions in the nation was heightened after [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown has been credited with pushing through legislation Monday to extend the state’s cap and trade program another 10 years. Bills AB 398 and AB 617 were passed by the California legislature with the support of more than 150 community leaders and groups, including those of environmental and public health. The program [...]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte asked Congress on Tuesday to extend his order of martial law for the lower third of the country. Duterte declared martial law on the island of Mindanao in May when heavily armed militants linked to the Islamic State took over large parts of Marawi City, a provincial capital in the predominantly [...]
A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered that six human rights activists, including Amnesty International‘s (AI) Turkey Director, remain in custody pending trial for allegedly aiding an armed terrorist group. The activists were arrested on July 5 during a training workshop and are “suspected of ‘committing crime in the name of a terrorist organization without being [...]
A US appeals court ruled on Monday that a nondisclosure requirement in the National Security Letters (NSL) law does not conflict with the First Amendment. Therefore the court also concluded that private companies that are issued an NSL by the FBI must also follow the nondisclosure requirement if the letter contains it in that case. [...]
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusett on Monday held that a woman who was fired from her job for testing positive for medically prescribed marijuana could sue her former employer for handicap discrimination. The employee in this case was prescribed medical marijuana to combat the low appetite that she experienced due to Crohn’s Disease. The [...]
Opposition parties petitioned the Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday to remove Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office after the joint investigation team’s (JIT) report stipulated that there was sufficient proof that the prime minister and his family held wealth beyond their known means of income. The JIT was created in April when the Supreme Court [...]
