Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a lawsuit in the Washington County Common Pleas Court against DuPont alleging that the company intentionally released perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) into the Ohio River. The discharges are accused of occurring from the company’s Washington Works facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Exposure to PFOA has been linked to kidney and [...]
UN Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urged the government of Papua New Guinea on Friday to provide greater enforcement of their laws and to combat corruption. The high commissioner stated that Papua New Guinea has “exemplary laws and policies in place to protect human rights, but they are reportedly often not enforced.” [...]
The governor of Bermuda on Wednesday signed a bill into law that repeals same-sex marriage, reversing a Supreme Court ruling. The Domestic Partnership Act gives domestic partners rights that are similar to married couples, but not the legal title. The governor said that “he Act is intended to strike a fair balance between two currently [...]
Bangladesh’s Fifth Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka found former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia guilty of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison on Thursday. She was convicted of embezzling close to USD $250,000 in donations for a trust that was established for orphanages during her 2001-2006 term. The court gave Zia’s son, Tarique [...]
A court in Amsterdam on Thursday referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) the question of whether British nationals lose their EU citizenship after UK’s departure from the EU becomes official in March 2019, and if not, under what conditions these individuals will retain their EU citizenship. The plaintiffs in the case are five [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist L. Ali Khan of the Washburn University School of Law discusses troubling recent trends in the Pakistani Supreme Court… Judicial activism is a milder label to express what the Pakistan Supreme Court has done over the decades to frame the national constitutional jurisprudence. Since the 1950s, the Court has validated several military [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Uché Ewelukwa of the University of Arkansas School of Law, discusses the dynamic landscape of trade secret law in a multi-part series. In part 2, she discusses the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 … Introduction Signed into law on May 11, 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) creates [...]
India’s antitrust watchdog, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Thursday imposed a USD $21.17 million fine (1.36 billion rupees) on Google for “search bias” and abuse of its dominant position. The order was passed in response to filings by Matrimony.com Limited and Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) in 2012. In a press release [...]
Google is being sued in a class action lawsuit filed Tuesday over alleged defects in the new Pixel smartphone. Plaintiffs claim that Google knowingly sold Pixel phones with defective microphones preventing phone call usage and other voice recognition functions. Google support agents conducted an investigation into the matter and acknowledged the defect with microphones. However, [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) her decision to open a preliminary examination into allegations of human rights violations committed in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte and his political party since July 1, 2016. Bensouda also expressed her intention to conduct a preliminary examination of the situation concerning political unrest and demonstrations in Venezuela. Clarifying that [...]
