Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed HB 2739 on Thursday, also known as the Our Choice, Our Care Act. The Attorneys General from 14states, led by New York Attorney General Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court [...]

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. Kaye said: I am concerned that charges of rebellion for acts that do not involve violence or incitement to violence may interfere [...]

A German court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on the charge of rebellion for his role during Catalonia’s independence movement. Puigdemont had declared Catalonia’s independence from Spain in October and after facing charges including rebellion, fled to Belgium. Puigdemont had attended a conference in Finland and was attempting [...]

Hawaii Governor David Ige signed HB 2739 on Thursday, also known as the Our Choice, Our Care Act. This bill will allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to people with terminal illnesses who are deemed to have six months or less to live. The bill has strict requirements before the drugs can be prescribed. Two [...]

UN human rights experts on Friday urged the international community to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the killings by Israeli security forces of at least 16 Palestinian protesters near the Gaza fence. Palestinian protestors assembled in Gaza on Land Day to call for their right to return to their homes. In response, to [...]

A Brazilian federal judge on Thursday issued a warrant for former president Luiz Inacio da Silva’s arrest. Judge Sergio Moro issued the arrest warrant several hours after the Supreme Federal Court’s denial of a request for habeas corpus from da Silva, who wanted to remain free while he appealed his 12-year prison sentence. The former [...]

JUIRST Guest Columnist Oday Talal Mahmood of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the potential implications of judicial review in Iraq….In Iraq’s Constitution of 2005, more than 67 of the 144 Articles include the language: “shall be regulated by law,” referring to the most important laws including the Federation Council Law, and the [...]

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison. Park was removed from office in March 2017 by the country’s Constitutional Court . In an unprecedented gesture, the peninsular nation’s Supreme Court authorized live broadcasting of high-profile case sentencing proceedings, if doing so would serve [...]

China filed a complaint against the US with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday over US tariffs against Chinese goods. The complaint is a request for consultation , which is the first step in a dispute in the WTO. The US and China have 60 days to resolve the dispute. If an agreement can [...]

The Attorneys General from 14states, led by New York Attorney General Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court for the District of Columbia over the EPA’s failure to limit methane emissions from sources in the oil and gas sector. Schneiderman is joined by the Attorneys [...]