A commission under the Council of Europe on Wednesday released a preliminary report finding that proposed changes to the Azerbaijan Constitution are not justified and would hinder the balance of government power . The Venice Commission , a constitutional watchdog branch of the Council of Europe, wrote the report and focused their warning on proposed [...]
Ahmad Rahami , the suspect in last week’s bombings in New York and New Jersey , was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday. The charges include: Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bombing a Place of Public Use, Destruction of Property by Means of Fire or Explosive, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that children facing deportation proceedings may not file a class action suit to determine whether they are entitled to an attorney as a due process right. The opinion reversed in part a ruling by Judge Thomas Zilly that determined the federal courts had [...]
Texas and Nevada filed suit on behalf of 19 other states against the Department of Labor (DOL) Monday, challenging the Obama administration’s new overtime rule . The US Chamber of Commerce , representing 50 business organizations, is also suing the DOL over the same regulation. The “new Overtime Rule,” as it is referred to by [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday ruled in favor of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in a case asserting that the state of Texas failed to soften its voter identification law as ordered . After the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in [...]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a claim by two former magistrates that their rights were violated by 2014 guidance memos from the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) that said they could be fired if they refused to perform same-sex marriages. The magistrates resigned after the guidance was [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on Tuesday into the fatal police shooting of Terence Crutcher. Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was shot last week by a Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer responding to a 911 call of a vehicle blocking a road. The Tulsa police department is investigating the shooting, but US [...]
The UN Independent Investigation in Burundi (UNIIB) on Tuesday stated their grave concern about the current human rights situation in Burundi. The group found, “abundant evidence of gross human rights violations,” which they believe could amount to crimes against humanity by the government of Burundi and people associated with it. Among the calls for international [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper discusses Proposition 62… No righteous, freedom-loving Californian believes human beings should be executed for possessing or selling pot. Indeed, we rightly cringe at the megalomaniac entreaties (such as, kill drug dealers and “I’ll give you a medal”)of military strongman, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who incites, and has himself been directly [...]
Thailand’s Bangkok South Criminal Court found British labor rights activist Andy Hall guilty of criminal defamation and violating cyber crime laws on Tuesday. The charges came about after Hall published Cheap Has a High Price , a report on labor abuse in the fruit canning sector. The 2013 report focused on a Natural Fruit Company [...]
