President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday announced that he will immediately pull the Philippines out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In a 15 page letter to the media, Duterte declared that the Philippines will immediately withdraw its ratification of the Rome Statute , which established the ICC and was ratified by the Philippines in [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Buckleton of New Zealand’s Institute of Environmental Science and Research, discusses the future of DNA software in the courtroom… As anyone who has ever watched CSI can tell you, DNA is well established as the gold standard when it comes to crime solving. Linking the tiniest shreds of DNA evidence together, [...]
The US District Court for District of Massachusetts on Monday rejected a challenge to the Trump administration’s new regulations on birth control that permit employers or health insurers with religious or moral objections to opt out of providing women coverage for contraceptives in their health insurance plans. The suit, seeking a permanent injunction, was filed [...]
The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday requiring the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare to provide information to women seeking abortions about reversing a medical abortion once it has begun. The bill is based on a study in which six pregnant women took mifepristone, a medication used to induce abortions, and [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday granted a summary judgment against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, ordering the agency to comply with a new disclosure deadline after missing the first statutory deadline. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to determine if all counties in the [...]
The ACLU of Southern California , on behalf of several people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and citizens whose parents have Temporary Protected Status, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday challenging the Trump Administration’s termination of protected status that could push over 200,000 people out of the country. The Trump administration has terminated [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday held that Spain violated Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights when the country convicted two of its citizens, Enric Stern Taulats and Jaume Roura Capellera, for setting fire to photograph of the nation’s royal couple stating that the “conviction amounted to an interference [...]
President Donald Trump on Monday blocked the hostile takeover of mobile chip giant Qualcomm by Singapore-based Broadcom . The executive order notes that Section 721 of the Defense Production Act allows the president and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) to review, investigate, and take action as necessary when a company under [...]
China’s National People’s Congress on Sunday added supervisory commissions and announced that it will reform China’s criminal code, both measures aimed at furthering in the government’s anti-graft campaign. During the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC), the NPC amended Article Three of the constitution, thereby establishing supervisory commissions ” The amendment was [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren A. Rousseau of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School discusses the impact that the onslaught of litigation against the pharmaceutical industry could have on the opioid epidemic… According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 63,600 people died of drug overdose in the United States in 2016 – an [...]
