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 [...]

The Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts released a decision Wednesday, denying Equifax a motion to dismiss and allowing the commonwealth to move forward in its lawsuit against Equifax for its data breach . Equifax sought to dismiss the claims against them under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure for failure to [...]

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Thursday ordered a retrial for 16 out of 43 defendants who were charged with receiving illegal foreign funds without a license “for restricted activities against state policy.” The defendants had received USD $60 million from organizations affiliated with democracy promotion such as the International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, Freedom [...]

Ammar al Baluchi , a forty-one-year old Pakistani national accused of helping to plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has filed a motion in military court requesting it to strike down the Defense Department‘s restrictions on his ability to create and distribute artwork. al Baluchi had been creating his artwork in his cell at Guantanamo and [...]