Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday reduced the prison sentence of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from six years to 18 months. Olmert was convicted in March 2014 and sentenced to six years imprisonment on several charges dealing with bribery. The ruling by the court overturned the main bribery charge but upheld the lesser charge of [...]
A man convicted of murder was publicly beheaded on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia after he was unable to meet the monetary demand of the victim’s family which would have prevented his death. Joselito Lidasan Zapanta, from the Philippines, was convicted of robbery and murder in 2010 by a court in Riyadh. The family of the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Brian T. Hodges and Damien M. Schiff of Pacific Legal Foundation discuss whether a landowner can seek judicial review of a jurisdictional determination under the Clean Water Act … The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a Clean Water Act (CWA) case that will have broad ramifications for property [...]
China passed a new anti-terrorism law on Sunday which requires technology companies to provide information to the government obtained from their products and make information systems “secure and controllable.” The law also restricts media organizations from reporting on terrorist activity. Critics of the law, including western organizations and the US Department of State , suggest [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Azariah Jelks of Valparaiso University Law School of Class 2016 discusses the importance of coming together as a community in order to solve the problem of affordable housing in the US… With the price of housing steadily rising, income levels largely remaining stagnant and an increase in the elderly, the need for [...]
Italian cities Milan and Rome on Monday restricted the use of cars, motor cycles, and scooters as smog levels have increased. Experts believe that the unseasonably dry and calm weather contributed to the increased smog pollution. Restrictions in Milan ban motor vehicles for six hours a day over the course of the next three days. [...]
District Judge Edward Chen for the Northern District of California last Monday ruled that California’s policy for reimbursing out-of-state hospitals that care for California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) patients is unconstitutional. Hospitals in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona sued the California Department of Health Care Services in 2014, claiming the state underpaid them for Medicaid services provided to [...]
South Korea and Japan agreed on Monday to a final resolution on the issue of “comfort women” who were forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War II. Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida admitted responsibility on behalf of the Japanese government and pledged one billion yen to a fund to help the families of [...]
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday submitted a proposed Constitutional amendment to the French Parliament to address anti-terrorism laws in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris in November. It is reported that the proposed amendments would allow the government to strip the nationality of natural born citizens convicted of terrorist acts and extend emergency [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it is suspending its asset seizure program which allows for local police departments to keep items confiscated from individuals under federal law. The controversial equitable sharing program allows for police departments to execute asset forfeiture cases under federal law instead of state law. While executing [...]
