Volkswagen (corporate website) plead guilty to fraud, obstruction of justice, and falsifying statements on Friday as required by the $4.3 billion settlement agreement between the German auto manufacturer and the US Department of Justice Department (DOJ) . The guilty plea was accepted by US District Judge Sean Cox. In addition to various reforms and oversight [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank, Emory Law School, discusses the recent airstrikes against al Qaeda targets in Yemen, and how self-defense raises questions in US response against al Qaeda… Last week’s sustained campaign of airstrikes against al Qaeda targets in Yemen brought the conflict with al Qaeda to the forefront of our attention, after a [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday announced its decision to reject an application to create an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the value of Bitcoin , a virtually currency. The fund, proposed by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss , would have tracked an index of assets, but would have traded like a stock. The [...]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday requested the resignation of 46 Obama-era federal prosecutors, including Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara , who had been asked to stay on by then president-elect Donald Trump in November. Although federal prosecutors are political appointees, the sudden turnover announced by the Department of Justice came as a surprise. Most [...]
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey declared on Thursday that Massachusetts will be joining fellow states in suing President Donald Trump to block his new travel ban executed on Monday. Trump’s new executive order has removed Iraq from the former list of travel-restricted countries and suspended the refugee program for 120 days. Healey stated that the [...]
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) published a report on Friday describing a plethora of human rights violations committed by the Turkish government between July 2015 and December 2016. Satellite imagery analysis has revealed that Turkey has systematically bombed over 30 southeastern towns, forcing civilians to either be killed or trapped for days in their [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Josephine R. Potuto discusses some of the controversies facing collegiate athletes today… Are college athletes employees? Are college athletes entitled to be paid for competing on college teams? Should college athletes be able to market their names and likenesses? Should college athletes share in profits made when their schools, or the NCAA, [...]
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld parliament’s decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a scandal related to government bribes paid by Samsung. The Court unanimously upheld the decision to impeach, the first time in South Korea’s history. Park now loses her political immunity, which leaves her open to criminal charges in the coming [...]
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Thursday requested that federal judge James L. Robart block President Trump’s new travel ban, arguing that the suspension of the first ban should apply to the second. The March 6 executive order from the Trump administration is similar to the the original travel ban executive order , which has [...]
Five Samsung executives, including the head of Samsung Group , Jay Y. Lee, on Thursday denied all bribery, embezzlement and corruption charges levied against them. During a preliminary hearing at the Seoul Central District Court , the Samsung defense team argued that the evidence gathered by the special prosecutor includes numerous conversations and other various [...]
