The US Supreme Court on Tuesday held that Microsoft is required to disclose a customer’s electronic information stored overseas when it was suspected in furthering illegal drug trafficking. The per curium opinion vacated and remanded the judgment of the US court of appeals, which held the disclosure to be unauthorized due to the information’s storage [...]

A Stuttgart Public Prosecutor brought charges Monday in a district court in Mannheim against a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for aiding and abetting the murders committed in the camp. The man, whose identity has not been released, was an SS Schütze, or Private, in the camp that was both [...]

The US Supreme Court held 5-4 Tuesday that the term “aggravated felony” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) , as it relates to §16(b) of the federal criminal code , is “unconstitutionally void for vagueness” under the Fifth Amendment‘s Due Process Clause. Section 1227(a)(2)(A)(3) of the INA provides: “Any alien (including an alien crewman) [...]

The Albuquerque City Council in New Mexico passed an immigrant-friendly proposal Monday, upholding and reinforcing the city’s commitment to “treat all persons with respect and dignity, regardless of their immigration status.” The resolution prohibits city officials from inquiring about individuals’ “citizenship, immigration status, place of birth, religion, or national origin.” It also sets forth limited [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit challenging the company’s facial recognition and “tagging” technology. Judge James Donato ruled that “Facebook users living in Illinois whose face appeared in a photo uploaded to Facebook from Illinois between June 7, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the recent US bombing in Syria… Nullum crimen sine poena, “No crime without a punishment.” (Ancient principle of law reaffirmed at the Nuremberg Trials) For the most part, a military response to the recent Syrian chemical attacks at Douma was obligatory under the authoritative international [...]

The US Supreme Court began its last oral argument session on Monday with two cases. At issue in the first case, Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States is whether stocks given to employees by a railroad is taxable as money under the federal Railroad Retirement Tax Act. The attorney for the petitioner, Wisconsin Central Ltd., [...]

In a referendum Sunday, Guatemalans voted overwhelmingly to request that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) resolve the country’s centuries-old territorial dispute with Belize. On Monday the government of Belize issued a press release congratulating the people of Guatemala for taking this necessary step toward settling the ongoing dispute. This referendum was conducted in accordance [...]

Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye , who was sentenced to 24 years in prison earlier this month, has decided not to appeal, according to a filing Monday. Park has submitted her intention not to proceed with an appeal of her conviction for bribery, abuse of power and coercion to the Seoul Central District Court [...]

The government of Pakistan has failed to resolve several human rights issues within the past year, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) . According to the HRCP, issues such as elimination of women’s rights, restriction on speech caused by disappearances of critics to the military or advocates [...]