The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals published a decision on Monday declaring that Utah’s requirement of a USD $1 million insurance policy for demonstrations violates the First Amendment of the constitution. The case was brought by two Salt Lake City environmental organizations that sought to have a parade on a state street, and Utah’s Department [...]

The citizens of the Republic of Croatia voted in the nation’s presidential election on Sunday. The first-round of voting ended in a runoff between the incumbent, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic , and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic , an ex-ambassador and most recently NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy. With 97 percent of the votes counted , [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Clarence Leatherbury from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law discusses the debate over torture techniques and our nations security… The American public was recently given information about the CIA’s torture of suspected terrorists during the Bush Administration, stirring up the debate over whether the torture of detainees is necessary and/or [...]

The trial against former first lady of the Ivory Coast, Simone Gbagbo, began on Friday in Abidjan for her role in the violence that resulted from the aftermath of the 2010 elections. She is charged with “attempting to undermine the security of the state” for her support of the efforts of her husband, Laurent Gbagbo [...]

The City of Providence, Rhode Island filed a class action suit against Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . The complaint alleges Petrobras engaged in a fraudulent scheme to inflate the value of the company’s net income by falsely reporting bribe-related expenses [...]

A Pakistani court on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Maulana Abdul Aziz , the head cleric of the Red Mosque in Islamabad. The court order comes after Aziz was accused of threatening protestors who were unhappy with his support of the Peshawar massacre which resulted in the deaths of around 150 people, most [...]

The Chinese government declared on Friday that it intends to publish a list of approved religious venues in order to “root out” illegal religious activities. The proclamation was made by director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs Wang Zuoan , on Xinhua , China’s official news source. Zuoan stated that the government will create [...]

The United Nations Secretary-General on Friday condemned a decision by the Sudanese government to remove two senior UN officials from the country. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement which included remarks stating that the sanctioning of UN officials by the Sudanese government was “unacceptable.” UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ali Al-Za’tari and UN Development Programme [...]

The High Court of Ireland on Friday ruled that a doctor can switch off the life support of a brain dead woman who is 18 weeks pregnant. The judgment made by the panel of judges challenges the Irish Constitution in regards to the separate rights between a mother and her unborn child. Responding to the [...]

Facebook failed in its attempt to dismiss a lawsuit that claims it scans users’ private messages for the names of websites and adds “likes” for the users to each website for targeted advertising purposes. The original lawsuit was filed in December 2013 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . Judge [...]