JURIST Guest Columnist Hanni Fakhoury of the Electronic Frontier Foundation questions whether the high court will use this latest opportunity to modernize Fourth Amendment protections…
More than 30 human rights and civil society organizations on Tuesday called for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . Tuesday was the fifth anniversary of his indictment on five counts of crimes against humanity (murder, torture, rape, extermination, and forcible transfer). In the open letter addressed to the UN Security Council and the [...]
The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat detected. The measure passed by a vote of 73-29. A fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as five weeks into pregnancy. Three other abortion bills were also passed by the House Tuesday. The first increases the waiting [...]
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic on Wednesday urged the international community to respond to recent and reoccurring crimes against humanity perpetrated by both government and non-government entities during the ongoing Syrian Civil War . The commission’s official report, which is premised upon interviews and investigations occurring between July [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Tuesday refused to block the state’s ban on same-sex marriage pending outcome of a trial. Judge Barbara Crabb refused to grant the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) motion to enjoin enforcement of the ban on grounds that doing so would merely [...]
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said Tuesday that the state will hire outside counsel to appeal a federal judge’s order to recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit . Judge John Heyburn of the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled in February that Kentucky’s constitutional [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Pakrouh, Widener University School of Law Class of 2015, discusses Merck & Co.’s $100 million settlement concerning the corporation’s NuvaRing contraceptive device, the board’s liability and the fiduciary duties it owes to its shareholders…
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that US courts could not be used to collect $9.51 billion in fines and legal fees that previously resulted in an Ecuadorian court’s judgment against Chevron . Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his near 500-page ruling that the punishment [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Plumhoff v. Rickard on whether the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to police offers who were found to have used unreasonable force against a suspect. The case was brought on appeal by six officers [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Steven Zeidman of the CUNY School of Law argues that changes to solitary confinement laws present an opportunity to discuss larger issues with the prison system as a whole …
