The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday struck down a California school district’s employee pay system, holding that using employee pay history to determine salary violates the Equal Pay Act . The case arose from a dispute between a female employee and the Fresno County Office of Education. The employee received [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health… The constitutional legal doctrine of preemption refers to how state or local laws may be [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Arnold & Porter filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal district court challenging the Galveston County Jail’s policy of releasing those arrested for felonies and misdemeanors who can afford to pay the cash bail and detaining those who cannot. According to the complaint, “he County [...]

Jackson Women’s Health Organization and others filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging a number of Mississippi abortion restrictions. The lawsuit claims Mississippi’s abortion restrictions have been “designed to choke off access to abortion in the state, primarily by decreasing the number of providers of abortion care, while at the same time delaying and misinforming women [...]

South Korean prosecutors formally charged jailed ex-president Lee Myung-Bak on Monday with a slew of corruption charges, including bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. These charges make him the country’s fourth leader to face a criminal trial in almost two decades. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office has charged Lee with taking a total of [...]

A coalition of 23 consumer, child safety and privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that YouTube violated children’s privacy laws by collecting and selling data from children under the age of 13. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) “makes it unlawful for any operator of a [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda called Sunday for an end to the violence that has recently taken place in the Gaza Strip and raised the possibility of ICC prosecutions against Israel and Hamas. In her statement, Bensouda cautioned both sides about the “deteriorating situation” that has engulfed the region: Since 30 March [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Massachusetts weapon ban, finding that the weapons banned fall outside of the scope of the Second Amendment . The law faced controversy from gun owners after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy expanded the definition of guns [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday expressed concern over renewed violence and reports of chemical weapons attacks against civilians in Douma, Syria. According to Guterres, he has received reports of airstrikes and shelling, violence resulting in civilians’ death, destruction of property, and allegations of chemical weapons attack against civilians. He referred to the particular use [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: David Kaye , the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression urged Spain on Friday not to press rebellion charges against Catalonian leaders. A German court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for former Catalan president [...]