A judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on Friday that New York City’s regulation of the banking industry through the Responsible Banking Act is unconstitutional. The Act was passed by New York’s City Council in 2012 over a veto of then-mayor Bloomberg and required lenders to [...]
The US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee , on Monday, lifted a temporary restraining order which limited the state in enforcing new abortion laws regarding licensing standards for clinics. The new laws require all abortion clinics performing 50 or more abortions annually to procure additional licensing requiring building and safety standards. Two [...]
Despite widespread irregularity and violence, Haiti on Sunday held its first parliamentary election in four years. Haiti’s parliament dissolved in January following canceled elections in 2011 and 2014. Around 50 of 1,500 voting centers were affected by violence or bureaucratic problems, ranging from varying poll start times to gangs accosting voters by throwing bottles. The [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Marcus of Indiana Tech Law School discusses religious freedom in the US… In a recent battle between reproductive rights and religious freedom, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman rejected claims brought by a pharmacy owner and two pharmacists seeking exemptions from regulations requiring [...]
Germany’s acting top federal prosecutor on Monday dropped a much-criticized treason investigation into two prominent journalists working for Netzpolitik.org . In July, Netzpolitik, a blog on digital rights issues, announced that two of its journalists, Andre Meister and Markus Beckedahl , were being investigated for suspicion of treason. The investigation was opened after Germany’s domestic [...]
A UK court on Monday dismissed a Spanish extradition request for Rwanda National Intelligence and Security Services head Karenzi Karake. Karake had been detained since his June arrest at a London airport, and the court ordered his release. A European Arrest Warrant for Karake was issued in 2008 by Spanish High Court Judge Fernando Andreu [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Aronson of Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy discusses the controversy surrounding Japanese corporate governance practices… A third-party investigative report released on July 20, 2015, found that Toshiba Corporation had padded its profits by $1.2 billion (1.5 billion yen) over the past six years. The current and two past [...]
Iraq’s cabinet on Sunday approved a proposal by Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi to reduce the number of top political positions, decrease spending, and restart a corruption investigation program. A vice presidential position currently held by former prime minister Nouri Al Maliki is among those to be eliminated. The proposal comes after weeks of protests [...]
The Chicago Police Department has decided to allow independent evaluations of their stop-and-frisk procedures that many have said specifically target African Americans under an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The agreement comes after a March 2015 report released by the ACLU of Illinois that found Chicago officers disproportionately target minorities, particularly [...]
Israel on Sunday sentenced two alleged Jewish extremists to six months in prison without formal charges. The arrests are part of a crackdown on Jewish extremists and come after an arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed a child and injured the child’s parents. Israeli authorities stated that the act was “Jewish terrorism” and [...]
