The State’s Attorney for Baltimore City on Friday charged six police officers with crimes including murder and manslaughter over the death of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray while he was in police custody. Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby filed charges almost immediately upon receiving the medical examiner’s report that ruled Gray’s death a homicide. Gray’s arrest [...]
French aviation giant Airbus said Friday it is filing criminal complaints alleging that German intelligence helped the US carry out industrial espionage. The criminal complaint against persons unknown was filed following German media reports that the country’s spy agency BND was collecting data on European firms at the request of the US National Security Agency [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne of UCLA School of Law discusses the role of bankruptcy courts in equity… Bankruptcy law, embodied in Title 11 of the United States Code (also known as “the Bankruptcy Code”), strives to balance the rights of creditors to receive payment for what they are owed with the rights of debtors [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Santa Monica, California, city ordinance prohibiting unattended exhibits in Palisades Park, deciding against the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee . The committee had been granted a “winter display” exception from the city’s 1994 law banning all unattended displays, but amidst religious controversy [...]
UN Women on Monday released Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights , the gender-equality organization’s flagship report on the status of women around the world. The report “proposes a comprehensive agenda for key policy actors, including gender equality advocates, national governments and international agencies, to make human rights a lived reality [...]
A South African judge ruled Thursday that a terminally ill man has a right to assisted suicide with no legal or professional consequences for the participating doctor. Euthanasia is illegal in South Africa, and the decision is the first of its kind. With the support of DignitySA , Robin Stransham-Ford, a 65-year-old man with prostate [...]
North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday approved a measure aimed at resuming executions after nine years. The law removes the requirement to have a doctor present at all lethal injections and instead would allow nurses, physician’s assistants or paramedics to oversee lethal injections in the state. North Carolina’s House of Representatives passed the legislation in an [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of 15 officials this year, the South Korean National Intelligence Service told a closed parliamentary meeting on Wednesday. These officials were allegedly executed by firing squad for spying. Four members of the Unhaso Orchestra are believed to be among the 15 executed . Two vice-ministers were [...]
A Pakistan anti-terrorism court in the Swat region sentenced 10 men to life in prison on Thursday for their involvement in the 2012 attack on education activist Malala Yousafzai . Yousafzai, then 15, was shot in the head on her school bus on her way home from school, and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment… Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on the books. Instead, with a persistent shortage of lethal injection drugs, fueled in part by [...]
