Iran Tuesday released Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah on furlough for five days, Adelkhah’s supporters announced. The Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal Support Committee stated the furlough provides only “temporary relief from suffering” but may be renewable. Adelkhah will remain under judicial supervision during her temporary release. Adelkhah is a researcher at the Paris Institute of [...]

The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) Monday fined accounting and auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) £1.75 million over their Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) audit of telecom company BT Group after it was discovered that the audit failed to uncover evidence of fraud. The FRC reported that BT group’s financial statements for FY17 had to be adjusted by [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee can access former president Donald Trump’s tax returns. Trump’s lawyers intervened and challenged the request for the tax returns after the Biden administration stated they would comply with the [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that they will end implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols Program (MPP). There will be no new enrollees in the program, and migrants currently waiting in Mexico will be permitted to enter the US for their next scheduled court dates. According to DHS’s July MPP Cohort [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Monday alleged that her Republican opponent Matt DePerno led a conspiracy to break into voting equipment in Richfield Township, MI. Nessel sent a request for a special prosecutor to step in to continue the investigation due to her conflict of interest.  The request states that DePerno is being investigated for [...]

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has had a subtle but important impact on Canadian sexual assault law, particularly as it pertains to the issues of consent and fraud. The case of R v Kirkpatrick involved a man accused of failing to wear a condom during sex with the complainant against [...]

The 1996 federal law that protects the privacy of our medical records –the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA – has from the outset contained a carefully crafted exception for personal health information that might bear directly on the commission of a crime. But with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the [...]

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Monday announced he would not call a special session of the state legislature to pass a restrictive abortion ban. Without sufficient support in the state senate, Ricketts is unable to change Nebraska’s current 20-week abortion ban to a 12-week ban. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Ricketts [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Here, one of them comments on the August 9 two-year anniversary of the fraudulent presidential election that prompted mass demonstrations against the regime. For privacy and security reasons, we are [...]

The FBI Monday executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, a Florida resort that former US President Donald Trump owns and uses as a residence. In a statement, Trump labelled the unannounced action a “raid”. FBI agents reportedly entered the premises and broke open a safe. The FBI and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have [...]