The US Supreme Court on Thursday granted certiorari in 13 cases, following its annual long conference Monday. In Bank Markazi v. Peterson the court will rule on a separation of powers issue involving terrorism victims’ rights to funds held by the Central Bank of Iran. Plaintiffs hold default judgments against Iran and sought to seize [...]
The Croatian Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction and nine-year prison sentence of former prime minister Ivo Sanader , ordering a new trial. Sanader was convicted in March 2014 of corruption after allegedly embezzling millions of euros in public funds. He was also ordered to return nearly USD $2.8 million, and the Croatian Democratic [...]
The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that EU nations can imprison migrants who attempt to reenter after having already been formally expelled from the nation. The case involved an Albanian migrant who returned to Italy after being expelled three years prior. The judges found that the imprisonment of the migrant was justified and that [...]
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday adopted a resolution encouraging the government of Sri Lanka to investigate violence toward human rights activists and minority groups, and create a scheme for reporting violations of human rights and humanitarian law. Based on the recommendations, the Sri Lankan government has expressed interest in creating a judicial [...]
France has officially opened a criminal torture investigation into the actions of the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad , officials confirmed Wednesday. The investigation is based on tens of thousands of photos allegedly documenting torture that took place in Syrian detention centers between 2011 and 2013 which have been ascribed to a Syrian Army [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday prohibiting the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from enforcing regulations applying to hydraulic fracturing, also knows as “fracking.” The regulations at issue purport to govern fracking on federal and Native American [...]
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Djamel Ameziane filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) seeking reparations from the US government for human rights violations he alleges that he endured while in custody. Ameziane was forcibly returned to his home country of Algeria in December 2013, despite his protests that he would be [...]
Honduran Congressional Vice President Lena Gutierrez began her trial Wednesday for her role in the nation’s recent medical sale scandal. The charges include falsification of public documents and fraud against the government by drug sales to the Ministry of Health . Gutierrez’s company Astropharma allegedly sold the government low-quality drugs at an inflated price. President [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) violates antitrust laws by limiting what compensation student athletes can receive. The appeals court, however, rejected a proposal to pay students up to $5,000 a year in deferred compensation, finding that the cost [...]
A special court in India handed down death sentences Wednesday to five individuals convicted in bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 188 people in 2006. Special Judge Yatin D Shinde sentenced Kamal Ansari, Faisal Atur Rahman Shaikh, Ehtesham Siddiqui, Naveed Khan and Asif Khan to death and gave life sentences to seven others. They were [...]
