The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions of several men who robbed, raped, kidnapped Catherine Fuller in the District of Columbia in 1984. Twenty-five years after being convicted in Turner, et al. v. United States , Turner and several other defendants moved to have their sentences vacated on the assertion that the government [...]
Senate Republicans unveiled their version of a health care bill Thursday, proposing numerous changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) . The bill will repeal many of the ACA’s measures including the tax increases it enforced to pay for itself and Medicaid , essentially giving tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. The fines imposed by [...]
A Jerusalem court ruled on Wednesday that El Al Airline employees cannot ask women to change seats to accommodate men. Recently there has been an increased number of disruptions on flights due to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who refuse to sit next to women for fear of inadvertently touching them during a flight. The issue, some [...]
A federal judge approved a settlement Tuesday between the family of Michael Brown and the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The settlement was approved by Judge E Richard Webber of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri , and details of the settlement agreement will remain sealed. Webber stated, “disclosure of the terms [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Arafa of Indiana University discusses the new French president, Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy in Muslim and Middle Eastern world … Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old and the ex-minister of economics, is now the France’s new president after crushing his bitter rival the far-right wing Marine Le Pen in the fight for the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark R. Killenbeck of the University of Arkansas School of Law discusses Alabama’s HB 24 which allows adoption agencies to refuse to place foster children with same-sex couples according to religious beliefs … In March 1967, a three-judge district court in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education condemned Alabama’s “relentless opposition” [...]
Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an investigation into the country’s attorney general, Luisa Ortega, for “alleged commission of serious offenses in the exercise of office.” The investigation was initiated by claims from Pedro Carreño, a lawmaker from President Nicolás Maduro’s political party, who has accused Ortega of being mentally ill. Ortega has recently become [...]
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley filed a lawsuit against three of the largest opioid manufacturers on Wednesday. Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and units of Endo International Plc. are accused of violating consumer protection laws by deliberately and carefully crafting a “campaign of deception.” The complaint alleges that the companies employed deceptive trade practices [...]
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has temporarily halted decisions regarding a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia until it can establish who has jurisdiction over them. The Egyptian government transferred the two islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to Saudi Arabia in April 2016, based on the belief that they had always belonged to [...]
Brazilizn federal police announced on Tuesday that they found evidence that President Michel Temer received bribes to help businesses. Temer has been under investigation since a wealthy businessman provided testimony implicating Temer in a bribery scandal and alleging Temer took endorsement hush money. Temer continues to deny the accusations and refuses to resign. In a [...]
