The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the plaintiffs in Amnesty v. Blai have standing to sue the US government over the constitutionality of a federal eavesdropping law, reinstating their lawsuit. The plaintiffs, including attorneys, journalists and rights organizations, facially challenged Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [...]
Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen (R) asked the state’s Court of Appeals on Monday to block an order issued last week temporarily halting a legislative measure designed to curb the collective bargaining power of unions. Van Hollen’s office filed the motion seeking temporary relief from a Dane County Circuit Court order enjoining Wisconsin Secretary [...]
A federal judge on Monday declined to formally rule on the request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to cancel his retrial , claiming that the motion was neither serious, nor did it raise a legal question. Earlier this month, Blagojevich’s lawyers submitted a motion to cancel the ex-governor’s retrial and sentence him only on [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Clearing House Association LLC v. Bloomberg LP , leaving in place a ruling requiring the Federal Reserve to release information regarding loans it made to various banks during April and May 2008, a key time in the financial crisis. While the Federal Reserve did not choose [...]
The French National Commission of Information Technology and Liberty (CNIL) fined Google 100,000 euros (USD $141,300) on Monday for violating French data privacy laws by capturing personal data through Google Street View cars, used for its Google Maps service. CNIL stated that Google was not responding to requests in a timely manner and has not [...]
The US Supreme Court will determine whether an appeal of a capital murder conviction can continue despite the prisoner’s lawyers failing to meet a paperwork deadline, in one of two cases in which the court granted certiorari Monday. In Maples v. Allen , the court will review a decision by the US Court of Appeals [...]
The Constitutional Court of Benin on Monday confirmed provisional election results in the country’s March presidential election, securing the reelection of President Thomas Boni Yayi . Yayi secured 53 percent of the vote, allowing him to avoid a runoff in his campaign for another five-year term in office. His closest competitors, Me Adrien Houngbedji and [...]
Hundreds of people are being held without charge or trial in India’s northernmost state Kashmir and Jammu, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. AI reports that India’s Public Safety Act (PSA) is being used to detain people despite the absence of sufficient evidence for a trial. Over the last decade, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at Webster University and Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says the UN Security Council and the military coalition in Libya acted in contravention of international law in its use of force against Libya…. On 19 March 2011 Western nations started the [...]
An overwhelming majority of citizens in Egypt voted “yes” to several proposed constitutional amendments in a national referendum that took place on Saturday, according to preliminary results released Sunday. According to a source from the high judicial committee overseeing the referendum, voter turnout reached 60 percent and 70 percent of voters approved constitutional reform that [...]
