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 [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in four new cases for this term. In US v. Texas the Court has been asked to decide whether at least one respondent has standing to challenge Deferred Actions for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program; whether the DAPA is un-reviewable under the Administrative [...]
United Nations humanitarian agencies on Monday called for continued aid to Syrians due to the “deteriorating conditions” in the area of Deir-Ez-Zor. UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq announced in the daily briefing that the individuals residing in the area need immediate assistance of food and health supplies. The humanitarian aid from the UN has continually [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a letter Tuesday to the Indian Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment , urging it to strengthen provisions of the 2015 Rights of Transgender Persons Bill . In the letter, dated last week, HRW South Asia Director Meenakshi Ganguly argues that the new bill is a large step forward for [...]
A German court on Monday announced that Hubert Z, a 95-year-old German man accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,681 people at Auschwitz, will stand trial next month. Because of Germany’s privacy laws Hubert Z’s last name has not been released, but it is known that he was a death camp paramedic [...]
Moroccan police on Monday arrested a Belgian man with a “direct relationship” to the November attack in Paris that killed 130 people. The Moroccan Interior Ministry said the individual in question, whose name has not been released, traveled to Syria with one of the Saint-Denis suicide bombers. The head of Morocco’s central Bureau of Judicial [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Pacifique Manirakiza of the University of Ottawa Law School discusses the debate surrounding what is going on in Burundi and proposes a different view… Burundi is undergoing a political and constitutional crisis. Following the announcement of Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza as the presidential nominee for the ruling party, the Conseil national pour la [...]
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government of Myanmar on Sunday to release all remaining prisoners currently being held for political and religious violations. The National League for Democracy Party (NLD) , which won in a national election last November, has already promised that there will be no political prisoners when they take office [...]
Approximately 180 Cuban migrants crossed the US border on Friday as part of an organized Central American effort to transport the 8,000 Cubans stranded in Costa Rica. Following recent diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba, thousands of Cubans are attempting to seek asylum in the US fearing that migration policies for Cubans might soon [...]
