The Ohio Senate voted 24-9 Wednesday to approve SB 145 , a bill the criminalizes a common second-trimester abortion procedure. The bill specifically targets dilation and evacuation (D&E) which is usually performed after the twelfth week of pregnancy. During a D&E a woman’s cervix is dilated and the fetus is removed with suction and surgical [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Julie A. Hill of The University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the Financial Choice Act and duplicative enforcement of financial regulations … After the L.A. Times revealed that Wells Fargo employees opened millions of unauthorized consumer accounts, the bank faced multiple investigations and fines. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fined [...]

The US Department of State on Wednesday issued guidelines for the modified travel ban allowed by the US Supreme Court earlier this week. The order permits denying visas to travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries unless the visitor has a “bona fide relationship” with a business or close family member but the court did not [...]

In the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report released on Tuesday, the US State Department downgraded China to Tier 3, which is the lowest tier for human trafficking. Tier 3 represents “countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so. China joins 22 other countries [...]

The Hague Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision that Dutch peacekeepers were 30 percent responsible for the deaths of 300 Muslim males who were turned away from a Dutch UN base in 1995 when the area surrounding the base was overrun with Bosnian Serb troops. In the ruling, Presiding Judge Gepke Dulek-Schermers [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ohud Ali. Alzahrani of the University of Pittsburgh discusses the overdue abolition of a long held guardianship system for the women in Saudi Arabia … Women have recently gained some rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (referred to hereafter as KSA). Currently, the women of Saudi Arabia do not have full [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an order on Wednesday that directed Google to block a company’s website from is global search results. The ruling stems from a suit brought by a small technology company, Equustek Solutions Inc, who asserted that Datalink Technologies Gateways had committed copyright infringement by relabeling and selling one of Equustek’s [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a San Francisco ordinance on Tuesday that was implemented to halt deceptive advertising tactics employed by clinics opposed to abortion. The ordinance targeted clinics that offered offered services, including tests and ultrasounds, as a way of dissuading women from terminating their pregnancies. The clinics did [...]

Brazil’s Attorney General Rodrigo Janot filed charges Monday against President Michel Temer for passive corruption. A former aide to the president was also charged. Temer is accused of taking a bribe from entrepreneur Joesley Batista . Temer issued a statement Tuesday in his defense. He said he intends to stay in the presidency and fight [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday released a proposal that will rescind the 2015 Clean Water Rule implemented by the Obama administration. The so-called Water of the United States Rule (WOTUS) was proposed in 2014 as a means to clarify the legal jurisdiction of the federal government under [...]