JURIST Guest Columnist Jia Li, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Class of 2014, discusses the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and how it may potentially interact with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.ERISA §510 is an anti-retaliation provision that prevents employers from interfering with the rights of benefit plan participants and protects [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday charged Hewlett-Packard (HP) with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by making improper payments to various government officials in order to obtain or keep contracts within certain countries. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) also announced on Wednesday that it had filed parallel criminal charges [...]
Italy’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck down provisions set forth in Law 40 that prohibited the use of donor sperm and eggs in fertility treatments. The court reported that the restrictions breached the country’s constitution. This provision joins other portions of Law 40 that have been struck down in recent years, such as one which [...]
Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku announced on Wednesday that Kenya deported 82 Somalis and rounded up hundreds of other undocumented immigrants in response to a series of attacks committed by Somali Militants since 2011. Since the crackdown , almost 4,000 have been arrested, nearly 500 of whom remain in custody. Lenku stated that the [...]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Wednesday ordered Bank of America to pay $727 million for its illegal credit card practices. The CFPB asserts that Bank of America used deceptive marketing and unfair billing practices in violation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act . With respect to marketing, the [...]
A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday to continue to block new regulations on the use of abortion medication while a case against them plays out in court. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the Arizona rules last week . Attorney General Tom Horne asked the court to allow them [...]
Human rights violations by Syrian government forces “far outweigh” those by armed rebel groups, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Pillay briefed the Security Council on the human rights situations in Syria, Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan, Mali and Libya , and called again for the conflict [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Aubry Dicks, University of Richmond School of Law, Class of 2014, discusses recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board concerning student athletes’ rights to unionize…In January, the National College Players Association (NCPA) filed a petition on behalf of Kain Colter and other Northwestern University football players asking the university to recognize [...]
An Afghan election official from the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) warned in a news conference Wednesday that Saturday’s national election may may have suffered a degree of fraud. According to IECC spokesperson Nadir Mohsini In the 48-hour period for filing complaints after the election the IECC received 1,573 formal complaints in its offices and [...]
A French appellate court on Wednesday overturned the extradition of Mukhtar Ablyazov , Kazakhstan’s former energy minister accused of misappropriating USD $6 billion from BTA Bank . In January, a French trial court in the Aix-En Province agreed to extradition requests from Russia and Ukraine, both of which house BTA Bank branches, partly because France [...]
