Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic on Wednesday insisted upon his innocence during closing remarks at his genocide trial at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Karadzic, who is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws of war, continues to claim that he was unaware [...]
A U.S. District judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma on Tuesday struck down federal tax subsidies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) . Judge Ronald White found that the Internal Revenue Service rule, which provides subsidies to individual customers in states that have declined to set [...]
Oklahoma women’s healthcare providers on Tuesday filed suit in state court stating that Oklahoma’s laws restricting non-surgical abortion procedures are unconstitutional. The petitioners claim that Oklahoma House Bill 2684 “is an unconstitutional intrusion on women’s reproductive rights that will harm women’s health and well-being.” The new law restricts the ability of a women to seek [...]
Judge Thomas Griesa of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York declared Argentina in contempt of court Monday for the ongoing debt dispute after Buenos Aires refused to pay two US hedge funds and sought to sidestep his court order that forbids the government from paying only the bondholders it chooses. [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns urged Mexico to conduct full and impartial investigations into the killings on June 30 in the village of Cuadrilla Nueva, Tlataya, State of Mexico, during a military operation against alleged criminals. Heyns stressed that “intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made [...]
Ukrainian state prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have opened a criminal investigation against Russian law enforcement agency the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation , accusing it of supporting separatist and “terrorist” groups in the east of the country. The investigation follows the announcement of a similar investigation against “unidentified representatives of Ukraine’s senior political [...]
An independence vote in Catalonia set for November 9 has been suspended after Spain’s central government filed an appeal on Monday alleging the referendum would be illegal. The unanimous decision by the nation’s Constitutional Court to hear the government’s case automatically suspends the November vote until the court hears arguments and makes a decision. The [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted a stay preventing Ohio polls from opening Tuesday for those wishing to cast their vote early in the upcoming November mid-term elections. The 5-4 decision stayed the September 4 order from the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio requiring the restoration of early voting hours [...]
An independent UN rights expert stated on Monday that there has not been a single child in the Gaza Strip area not affected by the ongoing conflict. Makarim Wibisono , the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, has expressed concern over children suffering from bed-wetting, difficulties sleeping, nightmares, loss [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William Partlett, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, discusses recent reforms to Russia’s judicial system … Russia is well known for having poor rule of law. Recent empirical research, however, suggests that this reputation is not completely justified. This research suggests that Russia has a dualist system of [...]
