Dutch court rules gas company liable for emotional suffering
A Dutch court in the northern city of Assen ruled Wednesday that the Netherlands Petroleum Company (NAM) is liable for the emotional suffering of claimants whose homes were damaged from earthquakes caused by drilling. NAM...
Nepal on Thursday extended the mandates of two separate commissions tasked with investigating crimes from the country's civil war . This extension came hours before the mandates were set to expire without any cases actually...
Israel high court strikes down natural gas proliferation deal
The Israel High Court of Justice on Sunday decided to strike down a deal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made last December to initiate development of an offshore natural gas field. The natural gas field...
The Otsu District Court in Japan ordered an injunction halting the operation of two nuclear reactors Wednesday, days before the fifth anniversary of the Fukuishima nuclear disaster. The Fukuishima disaster , meltdowns triggered by a tsunami, was rated a...
JURIST Guest Columnist Rogendy Toussaint of St. John&aposapos;s University School of Law Class of 2016, is the twelfth author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Toussaint discusses whether the disparate impact of...
Japan prosecutors charge former utility executives with neglect over Fukushima disaster
Court-appointed prosecutors in Japan on Monday charged three former utility executives with counts of negligence in relation to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) executives Tsunehisa Katsumata, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro were charged...
Former president of El Salvador Francisco Flores died Saturday in San Salvador while under house arrest and waiting to stand trial on embezzlement charges. Officials from his Nationalist Republican Alliance party say that the cause of death was...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday expressed concern over the delay of Haiti's presidential election and urged political actors to reject all forms of violence. The election, which was to be held on Sunday, was postponed...
The Fukui District Court in Japan lifted an injunction on Thursday against allowing two nuclear reactors to reopen. Japan ordered closed all of its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima Disaster in 2011. A group of residents filed an injunction...
A Salvadoran judge on Thursday ordered former president Francisco Flores to stand trial on corruption charges. Flores is charged with embezzlement and illegal enrichment for allegedly diverting USD $15 million from Taiwanese donation to his personal and...
