The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Ortiz v. Jordan on whether a party may appeal an order denying summary judgment after a full trial on the merits if the party chose not to appeal the order before trial. Petitioner Michelle Ortiz was sexually assaulted by a corrections officer in prison and then [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in five cases and called for views by the Acting Solicitor General on two pending petitions. In JDB v. North Carolina , the court will determine whether a juvenile student who incriminated himself while being questioned by law enforcement officers was in custody and therefore entitled to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Silvio Waisbord of George Washington University says the “anti-racism” law recently passed in Bolivia is a result of deep divisions in the country, but that it won’t help, and may actually hamper, civil discourse about those issues… On October 10th, Bolivian President Evo Morales signed a new “anti-racism” law. Expectedly, the decision, [...]
A penal court in the Aden province of Yemen on Sunday sentenced a group of 10 Somali pirates to five years in prison. The men were convicted on charges of committing acts of piracy against Yemeni fishing boats. Three other individuals were also tried but were acquitted for lack of evidence. The 13 individuals were [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday convicted former Rwanda businessman Gaspard Kanyarukiga on charges of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity. Kanyarukiga was indicted in 2001 for his alleged involvement with the 1994 Rwandan genocide and faced charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as [...]
The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ankara on Saturday lifted a nearly three-year ban on YouTube after disputed videos were removed from the site’s content. A German-based international licensing service owned by a Turkish citizen reportedly bought the rights to the videos that allegedly insulted Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , and removed them on [...]
A panel of seven senior US military officers on Sunday sentenced Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison, but Khadr will serve no more than eight years under the terms of a guilty plea agreement . Khadr pleaded guilty last week to all five charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, [...]
The Somali parliament on Sunday voted 297-92 to approve new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after several delays due to a constitutional dispute over the confirmation procedure. Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud had argued that due to the silence of the Somali Transitional Federal Charter on confirmation procedures, Somalia’s 1960 Constitution must control, [...]
Bahrain released election results Sunday in its second round of parliamentary elections, revealing that pro-government Sunni parties had maintained a majority, preventing opposition groups from beginning a corruption investigation of the ruling family. Opposition Shi’ite parties represent the majority of Bahrain’s population and claim they experience discrimination in government jobs and housing and have said [...]
Niger held a referendum Sunday on whether to adopt a new constitution following February’s coup , in which a military government replaced that of then-president Mamadou Tandja . If approved, the constitution would limit the powers of the president, confining officeholders to two terms and require presidential candidates to be between the ages of 35 [...]
