JURIST Guest Columnist Dara Purvis of Penn State Law discusses some deficiencies of a recent Texas bill resembling North Carolina’s “HB2″… In January, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick introduced Senate Bill 6 (SB6), another so-called “bathroom bill” aimed at preventing transgender Texans from using a bathroom consistent with their gender identity. The bill itself is [...]
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a group of Central American asylum-seekers Monday who hoped the Court would overturn a lower court’s ruling preventing them from having their removal orders reviewed by a federal judge. The lead plaintiff in the case, Rosa Castro, fled El Salvador in 2015 with her young [...]
Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. The strikers say they want better medical care, more humane transfers between prisons, and the end of “administrative detention” where Palestinians are arrested without knowing why. According to Addameer, a prisoners’ [...]
Alphabet Inc. , owner of Google, and the Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) , reached an out-of-court settlement with in a dispute over Google’s requiring Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its own search tool on Monday. In 2015 the FAS ruled that this requirement was an abuse of Google’s market dominance and its actions excluded [...]
The under-secretary-general for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Stephen O’Brien on Sunday condemned attacks against people, including many civilians, who were fleeing the Syrian towns of Foah and Kefraya. In his statement, O’Brien said the “perpetrators of such a monstrous and cowardly attack displayed a shameless disregard for human life,” [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc. and California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc. In Perry, the Court will decide whether a decision disposing of a case which involved both state employment actions and a federal anti-discrimination [...]
Former South Korean president Guen-Hye Park was indicted on numerous corruption charges including extortion, abuse of power, and bribery on Monday. Prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ officer also indicted Shin Dong-bin , chairman of the Lotte Group , on similar bribery charges but did not move to have Dong-bin detained. Prosecutors stated that [...]
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , announced a victory on Sunday after 51.5 percent of Turkish voters elected to expand presidential powers. However, his political opponents are demanding a recount as some of the ballots did not contain an official stamp. The changes, which will not come into effect until 2019, would abolish the position [...]
Aya Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen who has been in prison for three years in relation to her foundation dedicated to helping street children, was of acquitted all charges by a Cairo court on Sunday. Seven others, including HIzaji’s husband, were found not guilty as well. The eight members of Hijzai’s foundation were arrested in [...]
Lawyers for US President Donald Trump, in their answer to a lawsuit Friday, contended the president was immune from being sued by protesters who were injured during a campaign rally in Louisville in 2016. The attorneys argued Trump was immune due to being the president. In addition, his attorney’s argued the protesters waived any right [...]
