The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Manning the court will resolve the circuit split on whether Section 27 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 provides federal jurisdiction over state-law claims based on violations or desired enforcement of the act. The [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a Turkish court order blocking access to YouTube violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . The Ankara Criminal Court of First Instance imposed the order primarily on the ground that YouTube contained approximately 10 videos that were considered insulting [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland ruled Monday that the display of a prominent cross-shaped war memorial in a public park operated by Prince George County does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The monument, known as the “Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial,” is a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the recent Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act… Over the past few years, Congress made many attempts to pass cyber threat data sharing legislation. Until this year, these prior attempts had all been unsuccessful. However, in April 2015, the House of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Frans von der Dunk of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law discusses the recent US Space Launch Competitiveness Act… On November 25, 2015, President Obama signed into law the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262). This Act encompasses four titles: I. Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (acronym: SPACE), [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Green v. Brennan the court heard arguments to determine whether, under federal employment discrimination law, the filing period for a constructive discharge claim begins to run when an employee resigns, as five circuits have held, or at the time of an employer’s last [...]
UNICEF on Friday called for aid to approximately 1.2 million children distressed by conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) . Violence has persisted in the CAR since the predominately Muslim-based Seleka rebels ousted former president François Bozize in March 2013. More than 400,000 people remain displaced due to the violent overthrow, with over a [...]
El Salvador’s complete ban on abortion negatively affects not only women and girls, but also their families, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released Monday. The report indicates that woman who suffer miscarriages or complications in the course of their pregnancy can be charged with counts of abortion or even aggravated homicide, which breeds [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in an appeal by Mexican states attempting to sue BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The court let stand a lower court ruling in Veracruz, Mexico, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. , finding that the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo [...]
Stockholm’s district court on Friday, ruled against forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer, a file sharing and streaming website, respectively. The plaintiffs, Swedish Film Industry, Nordisk Film, Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, filed suit against Bredbandsbolaget, the second largest Swedish ISP, requesting that the ISP either block [...]
