The UN independent expert on human rights in Mali, Suliman Baldo, expressed concern on Friday at the difficulties facing the the prosecution of war crimes in Mali and urged the international community to assist the Malian government in strengthening the country’s judicial system. Baldo completed a 10-day visit to Mali earlier this month and reported [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Angela Johnson, University of Notre Dame Law School Class of 2014, offers insight into the short per curiam decision in Stanton v. Sims issued by the US Supreme Court on November 4, 2013 which may have created a major hurdle for plaintiffs vindicating constitutional rights via §1983 litigation by expanding the availability [...]
The Pakistani High Court of Sindh Karachi sentenced six men on Saturday for the 2011 murder of prominent TV journalist Wali Khan Babar. The landmark ruling makes the first time in Pakistan’s history that individuals have been tried and sentenced for the murder of a journalist. The two men receiving the death sentence were charged [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Antonio Del Mastro, Northeastern University School of Law, Class of 2014, discusses the possible interpretations of the Copyright Act that the US Supreme Court is tasked with choosing in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., which will determine whether or not Aereo’s business model is a clever innovation or a patent [...]
Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) , asked the nation’s high court on Friday to overturn a newly enacted law granting parliament greater control over the judiciary. The CHP claims the law is an attempt by the controlling party to avoid the consequences of the recent graft inquiry. Amid protests over suspected [...]
Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday rejected a request by Suleiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama bin-Laden , to delay his trial on the grounds that the government had confused him with a similarly-named detainee at Guantanamo Bay . Kaplan denied the request , [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Friday granted a stay on the enforcement of his previous ruling instructing Kentucky to recognize same-sex marriages. The state requested a stay of 90-days, but Judge John Heyburn II granted only 21 days for the state to implement the new rule. [...]
UN Special Rapporteur Magdalena Sepulveda urged Guinea-Bissau authorities on Friday to address the needs of those living in the country in extreme poverty. Sepulveda called on Guinea-Bissau to “move the country’s politics away from short-term power struggles,” and address “the consistent decline of investment in critical social services such as health and education, dramatically impairing [...]
The Brazil Supreme Court overturned racketeering convictions of several former leaders of the Workers Party on Thursday by a 6-5 vote, which will result in lessened prison sentences. The convictions of corruption and money-laundering in the nation’s largest political corruption case will not be affected by the decision. The court found that the racketeering charges [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that a California public school’s request for students to remove their American flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo was not a violation of their First Amendment rights. On Cinco de Mayo 2010, a teacher at Live Oak high School asked for certain students to [...]
