Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the government of Sri Lanka on Monday for not repealing its “Draconian” counterterrorism law. HRW accused the government of using the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to arbitrarily detain and torture suspects. Brad Adams, HRW’s Asia director, said, “he Sri Lankan government has been all talk and no action on [...]

A UK judge ruled Monday that life sustaining medical treatment is not in the best interest of a severely disabled 11-month-old boy and that doctors could withdraw his life support without the consent of his parents. Isiah was born on February 18, 2017, by way of an emergency cesarean section. At birth, he did not [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday that it will maintain restrictions on the proposed Pebble Limited Partnership mining project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, reversing its prior decision. In 2014, the EPA issued a Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Proposed Determination that planned to restrict the discharge of dredged or fill material in the [...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that a class action lawsuit may proceed against Applebee’s for its mandatory minimum tip policy. US District Judge Paul Oetken of US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the restaurant needs to disclose the mandatory policy to customers upfront. Oetken opined that while “tipping is [...]

The Federal Court of Malaysia on Monday unanimously voided the unilateral conversion of three children to Islam without their mother’s consent, requiring the consent of both parents to change a minor’s religion. The decision ends a near decade-long legal battle in which a father converted three children to Islam, a few weeks after he had [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dionne Koller of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses the Nassar sexual abuse scandal and the potential for regulation of “sports medicine” … Sexual abuse of young athletes has been a persistent problem in Olympic and amateur sports. Most recently, hundreds of allegations surfaced against Dr. Larry Nassar, a team [...]

New York and Minnesota filed a lawsuit on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to block the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to state programs that provide health care to low-income people. In December the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) informed both states [...]

Michael Turzai, in his capacity as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and Joseph Scarnati III, in his capacity as Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore filed a motion with the US Supreme Court on Thursday asking the court to block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order that would require the 18 Congressional districts in Pennsylvania [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: A group of five UN Human Right’s experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a “continuing pattern of death sentences handed out on the basis of evidence obtained through torture or ill [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing the school for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech, due process and equal protection. The US [...]