Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a law on Wednesday which increases government control over the appointment of judges and prosecutors in the country. The new law grants the Ministry of Justice greater control over the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) , an independent body responsible for appointing members of the judiciary. The bill [...]
Apple filed a brief Wednesday with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit asking the court to either overturn a ruling from last year that Apple violated anti-trust laws or grant a new trial in front of different judges. Apple argues that the case management order that brought the case together in the [...]
The trial of the first suspect to be transferred from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to the Rwandan national court system began Wednesday. The Tanzanian-based UN tribunal transferred Jean Bosco Uwinkindi in April 2012 to stand trial for his role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide . Uwinkindi, a former Pentecostal preacher is accused [...]
A municipal court in Russia on Tuesday sentenced several prominent Russian opposition leaders, including Aleksei Navalny , to jail sentences of up to 10 days for participating in a rally near the Kremlin on Monday. More than 400 protesters were detained Monday after demonstrators gathered on Manezh Square to protest prison sentences given to eight [...]
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that he is urging Congress to create a “strong national standard” requiring businesses to immediately notify consumers and law enforcement agencies when significant consumer data breaches occur. This announcement comes in the wake of two massive data breaches at major retailers Target and Neiman Marcus late last year. [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Kaley v. United States that a criminal defendant who has been indicted is not constitutionally entitled to contest a grand jury’s finding of probable cause underlying a pre-trial seizure of assets. The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled against the availability of such hearings [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in Robers v. United States . The case addresses the issue of whether a defendant who owes restitution for a fraudulently obtained loan returns a portion of the loan money by giving the lenders the collateral property that secures the money. Petitioner Benjamin Robers submitted fraudulent [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in Walden v. Fiore that when the conduct of the defendant, a Georgia police officer, occurred entirely in Georgia, the mere fact that his conduct affected plaintiffs with connections to Nevada does not authorize jurisdiction over him in Nevada. The decision overturns the US Court of Appeals for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Fernandez v. California that police may search a home without a warrant over the objection of one occupant if that occupant has been removed from the premises. The Court of Appeals of California concluded that Supreme Court precedent established in 2006 in Georgia v. Randolph “does not [...]
Fortify Rights , an independent human rights group based in Southeast Asia, issued a 79-page report on Tuesday claiming evidence the Myanmar government ordered policy discrimination against Rohingya Muslims . The report is based on 12 leaked official documents going back to 1993, which reveal explicit government policies imposing restrictions on movement, marriage, childbirth, home [...]
