The Russian Supreme Court began hearings on Wednesday on a request to outlaw the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group. The Russian Ministry of Justice has named the group on a list of extremist organizations. The ministry argues that Jehovah’s Witnesses’ common practice of passing out pamphlets incites hatred against other groups and violates anti-extremist legislation. On [...]
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on Thursday ruled that parents who remove their children from school during the term may be subject to prosecution. Jon Platt was facing this prosecution after a 7 day trip in 2015 in which he removed his daughter to vacation in Florida. The court was examining if this [...]
The South Africa Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Environmental Affairs’s (SADEA) appeal to maintain the moratorium on domestic trade of rhino horn on Wednesday. The moratorium was issued in 2009 under section 57(2) of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 , which was enacted to protect species and ecosystems in danger. The High [...]
The City of Osaka, Japan on Wednesday became the first city in the country to recognize same-sex couples as foster parents. The city government officially certified two men as foster parents of a teenage boy who has been under their care since February . The couple first consulted the Osaka City child consultation center in [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Andreas Kuersten discusses the flawed reasoning of recent legislation that allows Internet Service Providers to sell customers’ personal information without their consent … Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai and Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Maureen Ohlhausen begin their recent op-ed (a bull-headed defense of controversial legislation [...]
Democrats in the US Senate filibustered the nomination of Supreme Court potential appointee Neil Gorsuch on Thursday. Republicans countered by changing Senate procedure to secure a vote on the nomination. The procedure change, known as the so-called “nuclear option,” will allow the Senate to end the debate and force a vote on the nomination with [...]
Earthjustice , an environmental law advocacy group filed a motion on Wednesday, on behalf of two other environmental groups asking a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos – a pesticide widely used for various fruits, vegetables, and wheat grown [...]
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration was no longer planning to separate women and children at the US’ southern border as a means of deterring immigration. Speaking to a US Senate panel, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly stated that it was no longer within the Trump administration’s [...]
Amnesty International (AI) released a report Wednesday criticizing the role two companies are playing in a refugee “processing” system Australia is carrying out on the Pacific island of Nauru. AI says that for multiple years, Australia has operated an offshore processing site on Nauru where refugees and asylum seekers are isolated in remote locations and [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday removed Chief Political Strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC). Bannon was a controversial pick for the council, and according to the administration, was only placed on the council to help Trump control then-national security adviser Michael Flynn . With Flynn resigning in February, the administration says [...]
