The Gloucester County School Board in Virginia filed an emergency application Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to block a ruling in favor of a Virginia transgender student. The application, filed to Chief Justice Roberts , asks the court to halt the application of both an order by the US District Court for the Eastern [...]
Local groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors who were peacefully protesting the police killing of Alton Sterling . The suit claims that the police used excessive force, physical and verbal abuse, and wrongful arrests [...]
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) war crimes defendant Goran Hadzic , the former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence , died Tuesday from brain cancer. Hadzic was accused of coordinating, supporting and instigating efforts to achieve the “permanent removal of a majority of the Croat [...]
The European Union’s highest court released an advisory opinion Wednesday stating that Asma Bougnaoui, a French Muslim woman who lost her job in 2009 for wearing a head scarf, was unlawfully discriminated against. The opinion found that Bougnaoui’s release was not related to her ability to perform at work, rather it was directly related to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that Microsoft is not required to hand over customers’ e-mails held overseas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) . The case was initiated when Microsoft sued the DOJ over their request for customer data held in Ireland. Microsoft claimed that a particular section of [...]
Hundreds of Egyptians have been abducted and tortured by Egypt’s National Security Agency during a crackdown on political activists and protesters, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. Authorities have denied the accusations, but individuals have been prosecuted for isolated incidents. AI estimates three to four individuals are abducted each day. The report states there have been [...]
Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed a controversial law increasing regulation on Israeli human rights organizations. The law requires that organizations receiving more than 50 percent of their funding from foreign governments or political organizations disclose that they rely on such funding in “all communication with public officials and on television, newspapers, billboards and online.” Some, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kami N. Chavis of Wake Forest University School of Law discusses the recent proposals to add police officers to hate crime statutes… In May, the state of Louisiana enacted a law that would make it hate crime to target police, EMS personnel, and firefighters. In light of the recent massacre in Dallas, [...]
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory on Monday signed into law House Bill 972 , which states that police camera footage, including body camera footage, is not a matter of public record and proscribes the procedure for release of footage. While members of the public are allowed to request the footage if they meet certain criteria, [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University discusses Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg’s open public opinion concerning Trumps’ candidacy for presidency… Since justices during recent years have been increasingly uninhibited about making extrajudicial comments about a wide range of subjects, it was perhaps only a matter of time [...]
