Search Results for: 2014-04-08

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday gave Muslim Brotherhood leader Wagdy Ghoneim a death sentence in absentia. He was found guilty of forming an outlaw cell from 2003 to 2015, for obstructing the constitution and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Abdelaal, a professor at Alexandria University School of Law and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, discusses how the revival of the Emergency Law No. 162 of 1958 can negatively impact the rule of...

Roman Seleznev, the son of a member of the Russian Parliament, was sentenced on Friday for hacking into more than 500 US businesses, stealing then selling millions of credit card numbers. Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher N. Lasch of the University of Denver discusses Attorney General Sessions' position on sanctuary cities ... As JURIST previously reported, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has threatened to cut Department of Justice funding to so-called "sanctuary" cities....

European Union vice president Frans Timmermans announced on Wednesday that a legal assessment will be launched "as soon as possible" regarding Hungary's recently enacted Higher Education Law. Opponents argue the law is meant to close the...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases on Monday. In US Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge , a bankruptcy case from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [opinion,...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday rejected a settlement in a class action lawsuit between non-Gmail users and Google. The non-Gmail users contended that Google illegally scanned their...

Thousands of people in Belarus on Wednesday gathered to protest a labor law that fines people if they do not work enough days during the year. President Alexander Lukashenko enacted Ordinance No. 3 ...

The Colorado House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would ban sexual orientation conversion therapy for people under 18. The bill would also make licensed physicians and mental health providers "subject to disciplinary...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that Moroccan authorities have been on a two-year campaign to obstruct Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) , the country's largest independent human rights organization. According to HRW,...