Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested a man charged with committing war crimes in 1992 against the civilian population of former Yugoslavia. The search for wanted criminal Nikola Ceranic began in late June after Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) authorities forwarded an extradition request to the Brazilian Justice Ministry and Supreme Court . Brazilian prosecutors and police [...]
US President Barack Obama signed Senate Bill No. 764 into law on Friday, which requires labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products under a single national standard. The law requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to write the rules for a “national mandatory bioengineered food disclosure standard” no later than two years after [...]
A county judge ruled Friday that Kansas must count thousands of votes from people who registered without providing citizenship documents. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had imposed a rule that directed local election officials to not count votes for state and local offices from people who registered to vote at a state motor vehicle [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Friday struck down several Wisconsin election laws, passed in recent years, stating that “parts of Wisconsin’s election regime fail to comply with the constitutional requirement that its elections remain fair and equally open to all qualified electors.” In making that determination, [...]
A Brazilian judge announced Friday that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will stand trial for obstruction of justice. Federal court judge Ricardo Leite in Brasília concluded that there is sufficient evidence to charge the former president and six other individuals. Da Silva is alleged to have conspired to “buy the silence of a [...]
In a brief filed on Friday, Apple asked the Supreme Court to rule against Samsung in its patent infringement lawsuit. Apple contended in its brief that Samsung has been unable to provide sufficient evidence that design patent damages should be decided based on the value of the individual component, as opposed to the entire device. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Bruno of the Harvard Law School discusses recent changes to and ongoing limitations of the Freedom of Information Act… A few weeks ago, President Obama signed into law a major amendment of the US Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. Ironically for a measure intended to make government more transparent, the [...]
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday struck down several provisions of North Carolina’s House Bill 589 (HB 589) , most notably its voter identification requirements. In its decision to annul the voter ID provision of the statute, as well as provisions eliminating early voting, pre-registration same-day [...]
Three former Irish bankers were sentenced to prison on Friday for conspiring to defraud customers and investors during the 2008 banking crisis. In what was Ireland’s longest criminal trial ever (74 days), former CEO of Irish Life and Permanent plc, Denis Casey, and two former executives of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., John Bowe and Willie [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday refused to dismiss bribery and fraud charges levied against US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey. Menendez, who is believed to have accepted gifts in exchange for political influence, claims his meetings with government officials were to discuss policy and not for the purpose [...]
