The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday that Germany may place “residence conditions” on refugees. The case was brought by a Syrian couple who, upon arriving in Germany, were made aware that as refugees they were only allowed to reside in certain places. They argued that such restrictions violated their right of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Monday denied a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to order Apple to disable the security of an iPhone that was seized during a drug investigation. Federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein concluded that the DOJ failed to establish that the All [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 on Tuesday in Lockhart v. US that the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for child pornography possession applies when the offender has been previously convicted of sexual abuse that did not involve a minor. In this case, Avondale Lockhart pleaded guilty to charges of possession of child pornography on his [...]
Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo resigned on Monday amid pushback from the ruling Worker’s Party over his failure to reign in the corruption investigation targeting public officials, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva . Cardozo will be replaced by Wellington Cesar Lima e Silva, the chief prosecutor from Bahia, and will become [...]
Former head of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, failed to appear before a French court on Tuesday to answer a subpoena to appear for questioning on his involvement in the torture of two French detainees. French citizens Mourad Benchellali and Nizar Sassi brought the case, challenging their treatment [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on Monday blocked Governor Mike Pence’s order keeping Syrian refugees from settling in Indiana. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit on behalf of Exodus Refugee Immigration in November after Pence announced his plans to suspend resettlement of Syrian [...]
The citizens of Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposed referendum that would require immediate, automatic deportation of any foreign national who was convicted of two crimes within a 10-year period. The vote was decided by a margin of 58.9 percent against and 41.1 percent in favor of the law. The proposed initiative was introduced by [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on the recklessness standard of domestic violence misdemeanors that can federally ban someone from the ability to possess a firearm and judicial recusal in capital punishment cases. In Voisine v. United States , the two petitioners pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence charges in Maine. Both were [...]
Pakistani authorities on Monday prepared for civil unrest after the execution of Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri in a high-security prison in Rawalpindi. Qadri is the killer of a former Pakistani governor of the Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, who campaigned for changes to the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, which Taseer alleged were used to persecute religious [...]
A retired lieutenant colonel and a former paramilitary were sentenced to 120 years and 240 years in prison, respectively, for sexual slavery and other crimes against humanity during Guatemala’s Civil War and decades of armed conflict. Judge Jazmin Barrios found that the actions of retired Lt. Col. Esteelmer Francisco Reyes Giron and former paramilitary Heriberto [...]
