Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government’s proposed plan to allow further economic development of the Peel Watershed. The court declared that the government’s plan did not act in accordance with [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Qualcomm filed three lawsuits against Apple Thursday, seeking compensation for alleged patent infringement. According to Qualcomm, Apple uses technologies that Qualcomm first marketed in the 1990s. Former national security advisor to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of making false statements to the [...]

The US Senate approved some version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by a vote of 51-49 early Saturday morning. The Senate’s consideration of the proposed legislation began at 10:00 am Friday, and more than 200 amendments were considered as part of the final bill, some of which are surely part of what the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government’s proposed plan to allow further economic development of the Peel Watershed. The court declared that the government’s plan did not act in accordance with guidelines authorized in the Umbrella Final Agreement , which [...]

Former national security advisor to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of making false statements to the FBI. The charges , brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller , are related to two specific statements that Flynn made to the FBI. In the first statement Flynn made on December 29, 2016, Flynn denied [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier of City University of New York School of Law discusses diminished capacity standards in recent capital punishment cases… The United States Supreme Court in Dunn v. Madison recently considered whether or not a death row prisoner is competent to be executed if due to mental incapacity the prisoner cannot [...]

A Missouri judge on Wednesday upheld the $110 million jury award in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and talc supplier Imerys Talc. The suit alleged that four decades of using Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products resulted in 62 year-old Lois Slemp’s ovarian cancer diagnosis. In May, the St. Louis Circuit Court jury deliberated [...]

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Georgia on Thursday decriminalized marijuana usage. The suit was brought in opposition to article 273 of the Georgia criminal code, which punished marijuana usage without a doctor’s prescription. The suit referenced article 16 of the Constitution of Georgia, which grants the right to free personality. The article imposes [...]

UK consumer activist group Google You Owe Us initiated representative legal action Thursday against tech giant Google, alleging that Google illegally mined private information from consumers. According to Google You Owe Us, the tech giant unlawfully harvested personal information from nearly 5.4 million Apple iPhone users in England and Wales between June 2011 and February [...]

African and European leaders, gathered in Abidjan for the 5th AU/EU Summit , condemned in a joint statement the inhuman treatment of African migrants and refugees by criminal groups. The statement is seen as an response to the recent documentation of human traffickers in Libya selling migrants as slaves in open air markets. The leaders [...]