Brazil’s Attorney General Rodrigo Janot filed charges Monday against President Michel Temer for passive corruption. A former aide to the president was also charged. Temer is accused of taking a bribe from entrepreneur Joesley Batista . Temer issued a statement Tuesday in his defense. He said he intends to stay in the presidency and fight [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday released a proposal that will rescind the 2015 Clean Water Rule implemented by the Obama administration. The so-called Water of the United States Rule (WOTUS) was proposed in 2014 as a means to clarify the legal jurisdiction of the federal government under [...]
The European Commission fined Google and its parent company, Alphabet, € 2.42 billion Tuesday for violating EU antitrust restrictions. The decision focused on Google’s comparative shopping service, which premiered as “Froogle” in 2004, and is known today as Google Shopping. The Commission determined that Google used its “dominance in general internet search” to unfairly promote [...]
US District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a nationwide temporary stay on Monday to protect 1,444 Iraqi immigrants from deportation, extending an order issued last Thursday that applied only to immigrants in the Detroit metro area. Goldsmith’s order on Thursday temporarily blocked the deportation of more than 100 Iraq nationals, arrested by US Immigration and Customs [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of University of Toledo College of Law discusses the effect the Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay parts of President Trump’s “Muslim ban” will have on vulnerable refugees… On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court per curiam opinion granted the US Government’s application to stay the “Muslim ban or [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases Tuesday. In the consolidated cases of Christie v. NCAA and National Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association v. NCAA , the court will consider whether a New Jersey law allowing sports betting at casinos and race tracks is preempted by federal law. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act [...]
The US Supreme Court closed its 2016 term Monday with orders in several pending cases. The court ordered reargument in Jennings v. Rodrigues , in which the court must determine three issues concerning whether aliens seeking entry into the United States must be afforded bond hearings, especially in situations involving criminal or terrorist aliens who [...]
Human Rights Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was released on medical parole as he was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, Liu’s lawyer and prison officials stated on Monday. Liu’s lawyer Mo Shaoping released the statement and prison authorities have further added that Liu is being treated by eight Chinese tumor experts. The Norwegian Nobel [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday held in Davila v. Davis that the procedural default of ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel claims are not excused by the ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel. Petitioner Erik Davila confessed to accidentally killing a woman and her five-year-old granddaughter, as well as wounding several others, while he was attempting to shoot the woman’s [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case concerning a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers . The court also denied review of an important Second Amendment gun rights [...]
