Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday put on hold eight executions after a magistrate for the US District Court of the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday refused to lift a stay on the first three of Ohio’s scheduled executions. Ohio has since appealed the stay, initiated by death row inmates, to the US Court [...]
Former American International Group (AIG) CEO Maurice Greenberg on Friday agreed to settle accounting fraud charges, first brought by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2005. The current New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stated of the settlement: Today’s agreement settles the indisputable fact that Mr. Greenberg has denied for twelve years: that [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the University of Tennessee College of Law Immigration Clinic discusses the immigration and constitutional questions surrounding Executive Order 13769 … Since Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” on January 27, 2017, approximately 60 lawsuits have been filed [...]
According to an Amnesty International report (AI) on Friday, “the ongoing political persecution of Anwar Ibrahim is symbolic of Malaysia’s crackdown on human rights.” According to Josef Benedict, AI’s Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Anwar has spent two years in prison on politically-motivated charges. Since Anwar’s conviction, Malaysian government attacks on civil [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled Wednesday that Microsoft can pursue its legal challenge that government gag orders are unconstitutional. Microsoft brought suit in April of last year alleging that sections 2705(b) and 2703 of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) , which governs the government’s access to [...]
The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit against Secretary of State Brian Kemp over a voter registration law that would reject any application that did not exactly match personal identification information in state and federal databases. As part of the settlement, Georgia will no longer reject voter applications for not exactly matching the databases. [...]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday approved an 18-article bill that would provide significant changes to Turkey’s constitution. A public referendum vote will be held on April 16 to see if the changes will be incorporated. Erdoğan has stated that the changes are necessary to provide stability in Turkey. Opponents of the bill have [...]
A UN human rights expert on Fridayurged the Cameroonian government to restore Internet access to the country’s English-speaking populations. In his statement, Special Rapporteur David Kaye called the delay in restoring Internet access, which has been cut-off since January 17, “an appalling violation of their right to freedom of expression.” The network shutdown primarily affects [...]
The Mississippi Senate on Thursday approved a bill forbidding public universities and local governments to prohibit employees from disclosing any person’s immigration status to a federal official. Senate Bill 2710 also prohibits local government and universities from implementing a policy that “grants to any person the right to lawful presence or status within the state, [...]
The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would repeal the law prohibiting state citizens from carrying concealed firearms without a permit. Though similar bills have passed through the New Hampshire legislature twice, they were vetoed by the former governor, Senator Chuck Morse , on both occasions. The bill, backed by [...]
