Search Results for: 2017-09-28

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order Thursday, blocking Texas officials from enforcing a ban...

JURIST Guest Columnist Shannon Riordan of St. John's University, discusses domestic violence in the NFL ... On February 15, 2014, Ray Rice, a top National Football League (NFL) player for the Baltimore Ravens, was arrested on assault charges, after he...

The Second Intermediate People's Court in Tianjin on Friday gave human rights lawyer Li Heping a three-year suspended sentence for subversion. He has been in jail since being detained in the summer of 2015. Heping represented...

The UK Ministry of Justice announced on Friday plans to separate 28 "dangerous extremist" from the main stream prison population by placing them in one of three separation centers. Prisoners who are subject to separation are...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission and Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. . In Kokesh, the court is asked to decide whether...

Nine Arkansas death row inmates, including eight scheduled for lethal injections next month, jointly filed suit against Governor Asa Hutchinson and Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelly on Monday to stop the executions....

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday making it easier for certain veterans to obtain firearms. The bill adds a requirement that declaring a veteran mentally defective for purposes of restricting their ability...

Prisons in Thailand are failing to meet international standards, according to a report published Tuesday by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) . The report discussed how Thailand has the sixth highest prison population in...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that the practice of keeping former death row inmates in solitary confinement after their death sentences have been vacated is unlawful. The plaintiffs, Craig Williams and...

Over the past several decades, advances in technology have impacted various aspects of society, ranging from economic growth to heath care and the arts. These developments are significant when viewed on a global scale, but the growing role of technology...