The Pakistan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif can no longer be the head of the Pakistan Muslim League, the country’s ruling party. The decision was made through analysis of Articles 62, 63, and 63-A of the Constitution of Pakistan . Articles 62 and 63 enumerate the qualifications and disqualifications for [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in two criminal procedure cases. In Rosales-Mireles v. US , the petitioner framed the question for the court as: “How should a court of appeals exercise its discretion when confronted with an obvious guidelines error that probably results in a defendant serving a longer prison sentence?” [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to allow victims of a terrorist attack to collect damages from Iran through attaching government property present in the US. The case, Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran , stems from a 1997 terrorist attack in Israel carried out by Iranian-backed Hamas militants. Several of the injured were [...]

The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in Digital Realty Trust v. Somers that the anti-retaliation provision of the securities law does not apply to an individual terminated before he reported acts of retaliation to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The respondent, Somers, was terminated from petitioner Digital Realty Trust, Inc., shortly after he [...]

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and House Speaker Mike Turzai on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to stay an earlier decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court setting aside the state’s congressional map as unconstitutional . Scarnati and Turzai claim that the state Supreme Court “conspicuously seized the redistricting process and prevented any [...]

The Irish Cabinet on Tuesday agreed to draft legislation on a referendum aimed at repealing the Eighth Amendment in the Ireland Constitution on abortion. The amendment grants equal right to life to pregnant women and their unborn child. The referendum will propose deletion of this provision. A new provision is also proposed to be added, [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Murphy v. Smith that federal law requires district courts to apply up to 25 percent of the judgment to attorney’s fees in prisoner civil rights suits. The case involved how much prisoners who win their cases must pay their lawyers and how the fees must be paid. [...]

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Justice said Tuesday that 205 detainees suspected of involvement with the terrorist organization Boko Haram have been convicted . To date, the Nigerian government has detained approximately 804 individuals suspected of involvement with Boko Haram. The detainees are held in a military detention center in Wawa Cantonment in Kainji, Niger State. [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday in Class v. United States that a guilty plea does not, by itself, bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of his statute of conviction on direct appeal. In the case at hand, petitioner Rodney Class was indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing a [...]

Peru’s National Criminal Court Court B on Monday ruled that former president Alberto Fujimori must stand trial for the killings of six farmers in 1992 notwithstanding the medical pardon he received from President Pedro Pablo Kuzynski in December 2017. The court held that the medical pardon did not preclude Fujimori from standing trial for crimes [...]