The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland on Thursday upheld former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah’s 20-year prison sentence for war crimes and convicted him of crimes against humanity, the first such conviction in Switzerland. Kosiah was initially convicted and sentenced for war crimes by the Trial Chamber of First Instance in 2021. In confirming Kosiah’s 20-year sentence, the [...]
A US State Department ambassador told senators during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday that the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to block the US’s cooperation in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) case against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Global Criminal Justice Ambassador-at-large Beth Van Schaack told senators that, despite recent changes to legislation, the [...]
A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s bias reporting policies do not violate free speech principles protected by the First Amendment, upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction. Speech First, an organization aimed at protecting students’ rights to free speech on college [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found Thursday in Slack Technologies v. Pirani that federal securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their shares are directly traceable to misleading information in a registration statement in order to sue. Fiyyaz Pirani, an individual investor, sued Slack Technologies, an instant messaging app, after the stock price dropped. Pirani bought [...]
A federal grand jury indicted former New Mexico House candidate Solomon Peña for his alleged involvement in shootings from December 2022 to January 2023 which targeted four elected officials’ homes in documents unsealed Wednesday. The indictment from the US District Court for the District of New Mexico contains 11 counts including conspiracy, using a firearm [...]
The UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) on Wednesday expanded the convictions and increased the sentences of two individuals who helped to murder and deport non-Serbs during the Balkan wars. The two, Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, are former Serbian security officials. The IRMCT’s Appeals Chamber dismissed the men’s appeals of their convictions [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Idaho Wednesday to prevent the enforcement of its law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors. The lawsuit names Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, the prosecuting attorney for a county in Idaho and members of the Idaho Code Commission as defendants. The ACLU brought the lawsuit on [...]
Canadian MPs passed a non-binding motion Wednesday calling on special rapporteur David Johnston to step aside from his role investigating allegations of foreign interference in Canadian elections, which Johnston quickly rejected. The vote comes as the latest development in the ongoing furor over whether Canada should launch a public inquiry on the matter of foreign [...]
The US Supreme Court held Thursday that a local union must litigate a property damage dispute in state court, as opposed to appearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the court found that federal labor law, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), did not preempt [...]
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Yulii Kozub, a law student from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. He files this from Vienna. On Tuesday, May 30, there was a mass aerial drone strike on Moscow. Drones have fallen in Russia [...]
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