The government of Honduras and the Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday signed an agreement to create the Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH). The MACCIH will be composed of a team of prosecutors, judges and corruption experts tasked with investigating corruption networks in the nation. The President [...]
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday announced new international adoption legislation as well as a review of pending cases since the country banned non-residents from adopting in 2013. The new legislation would mandate an in-person hearing from anyone who looks to adopt from the DRC and would require that [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned Tuesday that the current state of emergency and law on surveillance in France may impose “disproportionate restrictions on fundamental freedoms.” The four UN experts shared their concerns passed in May 2015 after the Charlie Hebdo attack, stating that certain provisions of the law [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Prager of St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2016 is the ninth author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Prager discusses the influence of the upcoming decision from NLRB regarding student athletes… The “student-athlete” is surprisingly uncompensated and unprotected. [...]
A German court on Tuesday ruled against the legality of the taxi-hailing app Mytaxi . Mytaxi began offering cab rides for half the regular price in several cities if customers agreed to an electronic payment method instead of cash. According to the Frankfurt court , this is illegal and “unfair commercial practice.” The case was [...]
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday reversed a Tokyo District Court ruling from 2014 regarding the death of a detained immigrant. Immigration authorities were under investigation after restraining Abubakar Awudu Suraj, ultimately leading to his death. The new ruling states that the restraint was “…not at the level to stop his breathing and was not [...]
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday enacted the Natalia Ponce Law, establishing acid attacks as a specific crime with harsh punishments. The punishments under the new law between 12 to 20 years in prison for a “simple” attack and between 20 to 30 years in prison for an attack that causes disfigurement or permanent [...]
The California District Court for the Northern District on Monday granted Apple’s motion for a permanent injunction against Samsung for infringing upon three software patents . The patents involve data detector, “slide-to-unlock,” and predictive text input software on certain older Samsung models. Judge Lucy Koh made the decision to prevent “irreparable harm” that might occur [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the cases of Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods and Heffernan v. City of Paterson . In Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods the Court will examine whether the citizenship of a trust for purposes of diversity jurisdiction is based on the citizenship of the controlling trustees, the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an Arkansas appeal to revive an old abortion law that banned abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. After the injunction was issued, Arkansas appealed and the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in May 2015. The law in question was the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act , and [...]
