The Stockholm District Court upheld the arrest warrant for Julian Assange on Wednesday, finding he was not illegally detained in absentia. Assange has been held on allegations of rape dating back to 2010. The court found there was probable cause to support the accusation. Assange has been at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for over [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Alam of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the negative effect corporate mergers have on preserving American jobs… While some public figures paint horror stories of how immigrants steal American jobs, subtler, but yet powerful forces leave thousands of American employees jobless. These forces are corporate restructuring and downsizing. [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged EU officials to adhere to a 2013 suspension on arms transfers with Egypt in order to prevent human rights violations. According to AI, the suspension was put in place “after hundreds of protesters were killed in a show of grossly excessive force by security forces in August 2013,” but [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday ruled that the 2014 elimination of the state’s early in-person (EIP) voting was unconstitutional and in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) . While the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached a settlement agreement in April [...]
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Tuesday stayed a lower court’s decision striking down Wisconsin’s “right to work” law . Judge William Foust of the Dane County Circuit Court in April struck down the law that would bar unions from reaching agreements to force private-sector workers to pay the equivalent of union dues, later refusing [...]
US President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Vietnam Tuesday pressing the government on human rights concerns in the nation. Stating that he was not intending to single any one nation out, Obama commended Vietnam on its progress in recent years in committing “to bringing its laws in line with its new constitution and with [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday temporarily blocked an Ohio law defunding Planned Parenthood. The judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood on May 11 and issued a temporary two-week restraining order preventing state officials from terminating funding and declining to order the reinstatement [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday overturned a 2013 jury verdict that found Bank of America liable for fraud and imposed a penalty of more than $1.2 billion. The Second Circuit determined that there was not enough evidence provided to establish that the Countrywide Financial unit of Bank of America [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld lower court rulings that determined citizens who have lived outside of the UK for more than 15 years will not be allowed to vote in the June 23 EU referendum. The statute, the EU Referendum Act 2015 was challenged by two citizens that have been living abroad for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Wittman v. Personhuballah that Republican congressmen from Virginia lack standing to appeal a decision regarding an election district plan for Virginia’s Third Congressional District. The district was altered in 2012 in a manner that increased the already majority-African American population, and the district court found the plan unconstitutional [...]
