Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled on Monday that Ohio authorities must recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states. The court found that the state’s refusal to recognize such marriages violates the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Full Faith and Credit Clause of [...]

A foreign ministry spokesperson on Monday said that Iran plans to sue the US over its refusal to grant an entry visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, Tehran’s newly-proposed ambassador to the United Nations (UN) . As the UN is based in New York, this US decision bars the nominee from taking up and carrying out the [...]

The UN Security Council convened Sunday to address violence occurring in the Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russia militias. Ukrainian special forces reportedly exchanged gunfire with the militias early Sunday, resulting in at least one death and several injuries. Sources indicate that the militias seek to limit the government’s power, which, they assert, has subscribed [...]

Prosecutors in Libya on Monday opened the trial of former Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi Gaddafi and Saif al-Islam , and more than two dozen of his former officials for crimes allegedly committed during the 2011 uprising . While his sons were not present in the court room at the Al-Hadba prison in [...]

The Alaska State House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that would restrict state Medicaid payments for abortions. The bill sets forth specific medical circumstances under which physicians may deem an abortion “medically necessary,” thereby justifying Medicaid reimbursement. The bill defines an abortion as “medically necessary” if the pregnancy poses “serious risk to the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Daniel B. Levin and Victoria A. Degtyareva of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP discuss the federal bank fraud statute and Loughrin v. United States… Kevin Loughrin and an accomplice used six stolen and altered checks to steal just over $1,000 from a local Target store. They stole checks from mailboxes, crossed out [...]

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC) said on Sunday that there have been more more incidents of serious fraud reported in the April presidential election than the previous election in 2009, when more than a million suspect votes were thrown out. The April 5 vote has been praised because of the high voter turnout and [...]

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced on Friday that he appeal a federal judge’s decision striking down a state law that bans abortions starting at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Last month US District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the state law is unconstitutional and that abortions cannot be restricted until a fetus reaches viability. [...]

Egyptian prosecution authorities referred 220 supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi to criminal court over the weekend for their involvement in protests in downtown Cairo on the January 25 anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution earlier this year. The 220 Morsi supporters face a number of charges including attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms, unlawful [...]

An Iranian appeals court on Saturday overturned the death sentence of ex-Marine Amir Hekmati who was convicted of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2011. Saturday’s ruling decreased Hekmati’s sentence to 10 years in prison. Hekmati is a dual US-Iranian citizen who was arrested in August 2011 and accused of receiving special [...]