JURIST Guest Columnist Hilary Bricken, of Canna Law Group, discusses the Trump administration and how it could impact the status of cannabis at the state level… With a recent Gallup poll showing 60 percent of Americans favor cannabis legalization, it should come as no surprise that eight out of nine states voted for marijuana legal [...]
A 66-year-old woman and six-year-old boy have died in a fire in the Greek migrant camp of Moria on Lesbos, causing some experts to question humanitarian conditions at several Grecian migrant camps. Two others were seriously burned in the fire which is suspected to have been caused by an accidental gas canister explosion. The fire [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Resnikoff of Counsel to Rubin PLLC discusses the need for injunctive relief in the ATM anti-trust case … JURIST previously reported that the US Supreme Court published an order stating that it would no longer hear the appeal in two antitrust suits by ATM operators and consumers against Visa, MasterCard and [...]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to send a new wave of migrants to Europe following a vote to halt negotiations over European Union membership yesterday. The discussions were focused upon whether to continue negotiations with Turkey over its membership, a battle which has lasted 11 years. Erdogan threatened, “f you go any further , these [...]
According to an John McKissick at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday, members of the Rohingya Muslim community have been subjected to numerous atrocities by troops in Myanmar, including execution, rape, starvation and displacement. McKissick said the widespread violence is part of an ongoing effort by the Burmese government to “ethnically cleanse” [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday expressed hope that a new peace deal between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government would help bring an end to a decades-old violent conflict in the nation. An official UN spokesman said: The Secretary-General hopes that Colombians will come together at this [...]
The UK has one of the highest levels of premature deaths from nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution in the EU according to a 2015 report published Wednesday by the European Environment Agency (EEA) . According to the EEA while air quality is slowly improving around Europe it still remains the single largest environmental health hazard [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday reported that police at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota have used life-threatening weapons to control protesters over the last two days. The ACLU reports that tear gas, rubber bullets, concussion grenades, mace, and water cannons have been used on the protesters. The Morton Country Sherriff [...]
The European Parliament voted on Thursday to halt EU accession negotiations with Turkey due to the government’s “disproportionate repressive measures” after a failed coup in July. This vote is non-binding, but represents a strong message to the EU Ministers before their December meeting to discuss Turkey’s 11-year bid for membership. The MEPs stated that the [...]
In a 7.8% increase from 2014, 2.9 million patent applications were placed worldwide in 2015 according to a new report released Wednesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . Over one million of those patents were filed in China, and over 500,000 were filed in the US. There was also a 26.6% increase [...]
