Australia’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion on Tuesday rejected a call from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to create specific targets to improve the treatment of Aboriginal peoples. Tauli-Corpuz visited Australia between March 20 and April 3. She noted that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders represent 3% [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that LGBT employees are protected from workplace discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act . The plaintiff in the case was Kimberly Hively, who claims that she was not hired by Ivy Tech Community College because of her sexual orientation. The [...]
The Supreme Court of Missouri ruled Tuesday a parole revocation was improper because the court failed to consider reasons why an indigent defendant failed to pay court cost. The case dealt with a man named William Fleming who was unable to repay $4,236.50 in three years as required by the court in conjunction with his [...]
Iceland’s Parliament presented a bill on Tuesday that would require all public and private companies that employ more than 25 people to prove they provide equal pay for employees. If a company is unable to prove employees are paid equally through an auditing system, the company could receive fines. The legislation would apply to discrimination [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law discusses the constitutional legacy of the First World War… American entry into the First World War one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, generated significant constitutional changes that resonate a century later. The war enormously expanded the economic regulatory powers of [...]
A group of US Senators on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan bill to require government agents to get a warrant when searching electronic devices of US citizens at the border. The Protecting Data at the Border Act seeks to allow citizens to deny a request of border agents to search their electronic devices without being denied [...]
Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) , on Tuesday suspended the trial of President Michel Temer who is accused of receiving illegal donations during his 2014 campaign. Following former president Dilma Rousseff’s removal from office, her lawyers presented evidence in November that Temer received a US $295,351 deposit after the same amount was [...]
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill officially repealing internet privacy regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during the end of former president Barrack Obama’s term. A pending FCC rule, Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services , would have required internet providers to seek consumer consent [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Bettina Nemeth, a partner in LexMetis, discusses Hungary’s approach to the refugee crisis. . . In June of 2015, the Secretary of Interior Dr. Sándor Pintér, filed a legislative bill in the Hungarian Parliament to overhaul the country’s asylum proceedings and to restructure the border police force. The Parliament debated the bill [...]
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley stated to reporters on Monday that the US will continue to take action to sanction terrorists through the UN Security Council , despite other countries utilizing their veto power. Haley did not name China, but her comments come in the midst of India’s ongoing efforts to sanction [...]
