JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Jones-Pauly discusses the misunderstandings regarding the indigenous laws of South Sudan in the context of transitional justice. In December 2013 South Sudan exploded into civil war, three years after the South’s secession. The initial protagonists are Kiir, a Warrap Dinka, and Machar, a Nuer of Unity state. They signed the Agreement [...]
Three organizations representing 15 Kentucky Medicaid recipients filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration, Department of Health and Human Services , Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and others over approval of numerous section 1115 waivers in Kentucky to change the way that Medicaid functions in the state. [...]
In a statement celebrating World Leprosy Day, a newly appointed UN human rights expert specializing in leprosy warned that people with the disease continue to face discrimination and lack of access to medical care. Latest statistics show that there have been more than 200,000 cases of the disease in a year, with the highest number [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center , and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP filed a class action suit against Pennsylvania’s “unconstitutional practice of holding prisoners sentenced to death in mandatory, permanent solitary confinement,” alleging that the practice [...]
The European Court of Justice on Thursday dismissed Austrian attorney Max Schrems’ class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook, ruling that Schrems can sue Facebook in his home country as an individual. Schrems has continually campaigned against Facebook’s use of users’ personal information. Schrems was a party to the case against “Safe Harbor,” the EU-US data [...]
The European Court of Justice on Thursday struck down a sexual orientation test used to consider asylum seekers’ applications but upheld the use of experts to determine credibility of claims made in the application. The case arose from a Nigerian asylum seeker who was forced to undergo psychological evaluation before gaining asylum to determine if [...]
A Brazilian federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld former president and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s corruption conviction, which could prevent him from continuing his election campaign. Lula was convicted in July on several corruption charges including money laundering and accepting kickbacks during his presidency. Though Lula is one of the strongest [...]
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Department of Defense must give the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 72 hours notice before transferring an American detained abroad in order to allow for a legal challenge before the transfer happens. The ruling came from Judge Tanya Chutkan in the US District Court for the District of [...]
The president and first vice president of the European Commission expressed concern Wednesday about Romania’s progress promoting the rule of law. The comments represent the Commission’s reaction to the most recent report of the Co-Operation and Verification Mechanism for Romania. When Romania joined the EU in 2007, along with Bulgaria, the European Commission created the [...]
The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to eliminate special elections when there is a vacancy in the US Senate. Under HB 17 , when a vacancy occurred the governor would appoint a person until the next general election. Currently, the governor appoints someone who remains in office only until a special [...]
