The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday condemned the recent political violence in Venezuela, and urged all parties involved to move towards meaningful dialogue in hopes of resolving the situation. In an official statement , Pillay expressed serious concern at the amount of violence that has taken place since the unrest [...]
California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a petition on Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging the court to reverse its decision that struck down a law requiring residents to show good cause to carry a concealed firearm. Earlier this month the court ruled that the San Diego law violated [...]
The Mannheim Regional Court on Friday dismissed a complaint by patent assertion entity IPCom against Apple . The suit alleged USD $2.1 billion in damages against Apple for infringement of European patent EP1841268 , which manages access to overloaded wireless communication channels. Although the European Patent Office has upheld IPCom’s patent on the technology in [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Judith E. Koons of Barry University School of Law situates in constitutional history the recent case by Florida same-sex couples, arguing that it is part of a compelling period in our nation’s history that is likely to lead to marriages of same-sex couples to be recognized in every state …
A German district court in Ellwangen ruled Friday that accused former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, is unfit to stand trial. The ruling was based on Lipschis’ early stages of incipient dementia, making him unable to comprehend the criminal trial. While Lipschis acknowledges being a member of the SS at Auschwitz, he maintains he only served [...]
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday sentenced Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to two months of house arrest. Navalny is also banned from using communication devices or the Internet. Navalny has been a harsh critic of President Vladimir Putin through his blog and other social media. He is charged with unsanctioned protest, inciting chaos and [...]
The US Department of State (DOS) on Thursday released its annual country reports on human rights. In the preface to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry wrote that the DOS will “continue to press governments to uphold fundamental freedoms. We remain committed to advocating on behalf of [...]
A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday issued a final order requiring state officials to recognize same-sex marriages. Following his February 12 ruling , US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Judge John Heyburn also granted a request to allow additional couples seeking full marriage rights to intervene in the case. In response, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Ristino of the Vermont Law School argues that an array of environmental, economic and political factors have broken down the traditional coalition behind the farm bills’ passage in the past, but in its wake shifting policy objectives and broader interest in the bill have emerged that promise to substantially alter the [...]
On this episode of the JURIST Podcast, Pitt Law students Taras Shablii and Slava Opeida discuss the recent protests, legislation and political deals to come out of their native Ukraine. They gave some background on the cause of the first wave of protests: the suspension of negotiations on a long-expected trade deal with the European [...]
