UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Malaysian lawmakers on Thursday to observe international human rights standards when devising the country's new security act. Malaysia's Internal Security Act of 1960 (ISA) , which allowed the imprisonment of individuals deemed...
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The European Commission on Thursday referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for violations of EU rules related to the taxation of telecommunications operators. Article 12 of the EU's Authorisation Directive...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri declared a state statute banning the burning of the American and Missourian flags unconstitutional on Wednesday. Judge Carol Jackson heard a case...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Vasquez v. United States on whether the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the Supreme Court's precedent on harmless...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday that an ordinance passed in 2008 by the Texas city of Farmers Branch, prohibiting illegal immigrants from renting housing...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency that landowners can bring a suit directly against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency's order...
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) on Monday signed the Drug-Free Workplace Act , which allows state employers to randomly test up to 10% of their workforce. The act does not create a "duty" to test, but allows...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week ruled that the right of a person in a same-sex partnership to adopt his or her partner's child is not protected by the European...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Missouri v. Frye that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies during "all 'critical' stages of the criminal proceedings," including considerations of...
Over the past couple weeks, several people have asked why JURIST needs to raise funds. You can read all the details on these pages, but the most direct answer is that it all comes back to budget cuts....
