The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against a federal contractor Monday for leaking classified material to a media source. Reality Leigh Winner operated under Pluribus International Corporation in Georgia at the time she is alleged to have removed material from a US government facility. Winner maintained top secret clearance since February. She is [...]

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a 2001 New York zoning ordinance that banned “adult” establishments from residential and most commercial and manufacturing zones was not a violation of the owners’ First Amendment rights. The zoning ordinance classified adult eating and drinking establishments as “regularly featuring live performances characterized by an emphasis [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, on Tuesday called for a revolutionary overhaul of the mental health care systems around the world. Presenting his report to the UN Human Righs Council, Puras noted that, in the current system, less than 7 percent of health care budgets globally are dedicated to mental [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist, David M. Crane, of Syracuse University School of Law discusses the importance of the rule of law in restoring the ideals of humanity and morality on a global scale… There is a growling of a discontent, an unrest, just below the surface, festering ready to erupt into a boil of frustration. The [...]

Fugitive ex-governor of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Roberto Borge, was arrested on Monday in Panama. Borge, a member of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was taken into custody on charges of corruption. He was wanted in connection with the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of state properties. Borge denies [...]

Philippine opposition lawmakers petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to reject President Rodrigo Duterte‘s imposition of martial law. Duterte declared martial law on May 23 when heavily armed militants linked to the Islamic State took over large parts of Marawi City, a provincial capital in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. Six House lawmakers, led by [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc. that as-of-right intervenors must have independent Article III standing to intervene under Rule 24(a)(2) . Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion of a unanimous court. In 2012 Steven Sherman, a land developer, filed suit against the Town of Chester for obstructing [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission that claims for disgorgement in an SEC enforcement action are held within the five-year statute of limitations. The court was unanimous in its opinion that the SEC filing for disgorgement to prevent unjust enrichment is limited as it is a penalty that [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Honeycutt v. United States that forfeiture is limited to property the defendant actually obtained as a result of the crime or “tainted property.” The court held that the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984 limits property to the definitions within the act and rejected the government’s argument that the [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton that a church-affiliated hospital’s pension fund is exempt from the federal pension law. The court held that under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) , a defined-benefit pension plan maintained by a church-affiliated organization qualifies as a “church plan,” even though [...]