The US Supreme Court on Wednesday remanded a dispute over an elementary school student’s service dog to the lower court. In Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools , a child with cerebral palsy attempted to bring her trained service dog with her to kindergarten. The school stated that the school staff could perform all of the [...]
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have defunded Planned Parenthood and other women’s health providers. HB 2264 sought to remove funding from any provider that performed any abortion or abortion related services from receiving any federal funding including medicare coverage. The governor vetoed the bill in hopes of stabilizing health care services. [...]
The Sri Lankan police on Monday arrested five military officials in connection with the 2009 death of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge. The Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka said that the those arrested for were responsible for Wickrematunge’s death and the abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr. Wickrematunge was known for critiquing the government as part of [...]
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly officially issued on Monday two memoranda to the department directing its workforce to implement two executive orders on the enforcement of immigration laws. The first memorandum implements President Donald Trump’s Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvement Policies . Kelly directed US Customs and Border Protection to [...]
Human rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai Army to drop defamation charges against three activists, including the Chair of Amnesty International Thailand, Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, and Anchana Heemmina, founder of Duay Jai Group , and Somchai Homlaor, a human rights lawyer. The activists are being held and face up to seven years in jail for [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lethal injection case from Alabama, over the dissent of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. The appeal was filed by inmate Tommy Arthur, who was challenging the method of his execution , claiming that it was difficult for inmates to effectively challenge the method of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Valentina Azarova of the Centre for Global Public Law of Koç University, Istanbul, discusses the implications of Security Council Resolution 2334 on the Israel-Palestine conflict… The US decision not to veto Security Council Resolution 2334 (SCR 2334 or “the Resolution”), adopted on December 23, 2016, as the last political act of the [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on Tuesday to determine whether a guilty plea waives a defendant’s right to challenge the constitutionality of the statute under which he was convicted. The case, Class v. US , concerns a guilty plea made by Rodney Class to possession of a firearmt. Class lacked counsel at the time [...]
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey filed an application Monday asking the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to address the continuous and allegedly unlawful imprisonment of the party’s co-chairs. Thirteen HDP politicians have been arrested since November, and 10 of them still await trial. The HDP declared that these allegedly systematic arrests “constitute [...]
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales on Tuesday rejected a heterosexual couple’s legal challenge to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 , ruling 2-1 that only same-sex couples may enter into civil partnerships. The court’s decision gave the government more time to review the law, which currently prohibits opposite-sex couples from taking advantage of [...]
