JURIST Guest Columnist W. David Ball of Santa Clara Law, discusses the legal framework behind the Nebraska and Oklahoma law suit against Colorado to invalidate Colorado’s marijuana law… In December 2014, Oklahoma and Nebraska took the unusual step of filing a complaint in the US Supreme Court asking for a declaratory judgment that Amendment 64, [...]
Authorities in the Republic of Senegal arrested Amadou Sall on Monday, a lawyer for ex-government official Karim Wade who is facing corruption charges. It is believed Sall was
A UN commission on Monday reported widespread human rights abuses in Eritrea. Following a four-month investigation of the country’s human rights situation, the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea found instances of torture and a high number of detentions. Many Eritrean citizens survive on less than two dollars a day. The Commission’s Chair, [...]
Syrian government air strikes on the northern city of al-Raqqa last November killed “dozens of civilians and injured many more,” Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. Although it was revealed on two occasions in November that the Syrian forces had “attacked fighters affiliated to the armed group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS),” it was [...]
A transgender inmate in Massachusetts on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling denying her request for sex reassignment surgery. The question at issue is whether “the Eighth Amendment prohibits prison officials from denying necessary medical treatment to a prisoner for non-medical reasons, such as security concerns.” According to the petition, the [...]
A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced a New Zealand bar manager and his associates to two-and-a-half years in prison for insulting Buddhism in an online advertisement that showed a psychedelic depiction of Buddha wearing headphones. Philip Blackwood, Tun Thurein and Htut Ko Ko Lwin were sentenced to two years of hard labor for insulting religion [...]
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha called Tuesday for a limit to the use of martial law that has been in place since May. Under martial law, all political protests have been banned and the military possesses unbridled authority to arrest and detain citizens. Prayuth stressed that the Thai government has decreased its use of martial [...]
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 13 others to death after finding them guilty of planning attacks against the state. Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie has been sentenced to death before, although the sentences were later reduced to life imprisonment. Badie and the 13 other defendants were accused [...]
Judge Callie Granade of the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on Monday refused to stay her order to a probate judge that he must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This new order states that the Probate Court of Mobile County must comply with her ruling in Strawser v. Strange [...]
Oregon Governor Kate Brown on Monday signed a new law that makes Oregon the first state in the nation to institute automatic voter registration. House Bill 2177 , informally called the Motor Voter legislation, will use data from the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to automatically register eligible voters in the DMV system. The [...]
