The Arizona Supreme Court issued an order Monday denying in-state tuition for individuals who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Court reviewed the case brought from the Arizona Court of Appeals where that court had ruled against in-state tuition for DACA recipients in June 2017. The Arizona Supreme Court, agreeing [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday filed a motion with the president of the Court’s Pre-Trial Division seeking a ruling on whether the Court may exercise jurisdiction over the alleged deportation of the Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, which Bensouda contends is actionable under Article 7(1)(d) of the Rome Statute . [...]
The Belfast City Council voted on Monday to decriminalize abortion upon requests from Amnesty International, Family Planning Association and Both Lives Matter . The council passed the motion with a 34-15 vote and five abstentions. Councillor Kate Nicholl proposed the motion, and Councillor Mary Ellen Campbell joined, in response to growing numbers of women avoiding [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday struck down a California school district’s employee pay system, holding that using employee pay history to determine salary violates the Equal Pay Act . The case arose from a dispute between a female employee and the Fresno County Office of Education. The employee received [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health… The constitutional legal doctrine of preemption refers to how state or local laws may be [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Arnold & Porter filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal district court challenging the Galveston County Jail’s policy of releasing those arrested for felonies and misdemeanors who can afford to pay the cash bail and detaining those who cannot. According to the complaint, “he County [...]
Jackson Women’s Health Organization and others filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging a number of Mississippi abortion restrictions. The lawsuit claims Mississippi’s abortion restrictions have been “designed to choke off access to abortion in the state, primarily by decreasing the number of providers of abortion care, while at the same time delaying and misinforming women [...]
South Korean prosecutors formally charged jailed ex-president Lee Myung-Bak on Monday with a slew of corruption charges, including bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. These charges make him the country’s fourth leader to face a criminal trial in almost two decades. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office has charged Lee with taking a total of [...]
A coalition of 23 consumer, child safety and privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that YouTube violated children’s privacy laws by collecting and selling data from children under the age of 13. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) “makes it unlawful for any operator of a [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda called Sunday for an end to the violence that has recently taken place in the Gaza Strip and raised the possibility of ICC prosecutions against Israel and Hamas. In her statement, Bensouda cautioned both sides about the “deteriorating situation” that has engulfed the region: Since 30 March [...]
