Search Results for: 2014-04-08

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Liberian commander known as "Jungle Jabbah" to 30 years in prison for defrauding the US immigration authorities and lying about...

JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Hoofnagle of Berkeley Law, discusses the policing of Facebook's privacy policies and FTC enforcement ... The Challenge of Policing Facebook Are our institutions up to the challenge of protecting users from information-age problems? This is the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the US Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule. The fiduciary rule placed fixed indexed annuities to fall under the Best Interest Contract...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sarah Silverhardt of St. John's University discusses the implications of continued ignorance of serial rapists on college campuses... Unlike your Sunday marathon of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, this heinous crime was real. Two Virginia students...

JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and Sarah A. Noe of the University of Pennsylvania Law School discuss the recent national call for a Presidential state of emergency...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned the murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard and ordered resentencing of three others for the killing of unarmed Iraqi...

Six individuals joined with several civil rights groups, including Black Lives Matter Chicago , to file a federal lawsuit against Chicago, accusing the city police force of racial discrimination against African Americans and Latinos. According to the lawsuit,...

The Kansas legislature approved SB 235 on Thursday exempting state mental hospitals, community mental health centers and the University of Kansas Health System's hospitals from a previously passed law allowing people to carry concealed...

Sweden's Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, dropped the preliminary investigation of rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday. The decision was made on the grounds that in order to continue with court proceedings,...

The International Court of Justice on Wenesday scheduled a public hearing to resolve a dispute over an Indian man accused of spying after receiving notice from Indian officials that a Pakistani military court has...