The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Wednesday that the state’s lifetime ban on convicted criminals gaining full-time employment in nursing homes and long-term care facilities was unconstitutional. The unanimous decision supported the plaintiffs’ claim that section 503(a) of the Older Adults Protective Services Act violated due process. The court held that the bar on convicted [...]
A court in Bangladesh sentenced two men to death and six others to prison on Thursday for murdering Ahmed Rajib Haider, an atheist blogger known by the name of Thaba Baba, in 2013. Those convicted included seven university students and Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, a leader of the outlawed Islamist Ansarullah Bangla Team. The students claim [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York in an opinion made public on Tuesday, decided that two shareholder class actions against Facebook Inc. , alleging that the company hid concerns about its growth, could proceed. The shareholders allege that in 2012, a year before the release of the initial public offering [...]
Members of Venezuela’s Socialist Party who lost legislative seats in elections earlier this month filed challenges on Tuesday disputing the election of eight opposition candidates. The opposition, Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), won 99 legislative seats on December 6, giving the party legislative power for the first time in 16 years. The win for the opposition [...]
A top UN official on Tuesday called on Burundi to form a “nationally-led and owned effort” to find a solution to the violence the country has faced. Jamal Benomar , the Secretary-General’s Special Advisor, also stated that the international community must stand ready to support that effort. In talks held in Uganda by President Yoweri [...]
Belgian prosecutors on Tuesday said that authorities have taken into custody two people suspected of plotting New Year’s Eve attacks of popular tourist spots in Brussels. According to their statement, police on Sunday and Monday conducted raids around Brussels and the Liege region, ultimately seizing military-style training uniforms, computer hardware and Islamic State (IS) propaganda [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Schmidt of Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2017, discusses gun rights in the United States…President Obama, without respect to those mourning lost loved ones, has gotten into a habit of always attacking law-abiding citizens’ rights to bear arms whenever there is a highly publicized violent attack in the United [...]
An Islamic State (IS) fatwa was released on Tuesday that provides rules for when “owners” of women enslaved by IS may have sex with those captured women. The ruling was issued by IS theologians and includes provisions which forbid having intercourse with a female captive when she is menstruating or pregnant or causing an abortion [...]
An Ohio grand jury decided on Monday not to indict two officers involved in a 2014 shooting resulting in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. In November 2014 officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback were dispatched to investigate an emergency call about a “guy with a gun” pulling a weapon from his waistband and pointing [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Guadalupe T. Luna of Indiana Tech Law School discusses Indiana Governor’s refusal to accept Syrian refugees… Federal law and its nexus with international humanitarian principles, agreements and commitments extend sanctuary to refugees fleeing war-torn countries, ethnic strife and other harm that precludes return to their countries of origin. Against this framework the [...]
