The state of Massachusetts on Tuesday requested the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court find that state authorities lack jurisdiction to detain illegal immigrants. This request comes after the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency requested courts and law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants in custody for up to 48 hours after their case was resolved. [...]

The cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel approved draft legislation on Wednesday that would impose fines on social media websites for failing to delete users’ entries that violate German hate speech laws. The fines could reportedly be as high as 50 million Euros ($53 million). The law would make the websites responsible for removing the [...]

A UK high court on Wednesday stayed the extradition of a British man, Rosslee Charles, to Turkey given concerns over his safety. Charles, a gay man, was convicted of homosexual rape in Turkey in 2006. Before the trial, Charles had been held for six months in a Turkish prison. During that time he was assaulted [...]

Australia’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion on Tuesday rejected a call from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to create specific targets to improve the treatment of Aboriginal peoples. Tauli-Corpuz visited Australia between March 20 and April 3. She noted that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders represent 3% [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that LGBT employees are protected from workplace discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act . The plaintiff in the case was Kimberly Hively, who claims that she was not hired by Ivy Tech Community College because of her sexual orientation. The [...]

The Supreme Court of Missouri ruled Tuesday a parole revocation was improper because the court failed to consider reasons why an indigent defendant failed to pay court cost. The case dealt with a man named William Fleming who was unable to repay $4,236.50 in three years as required by the court in conjunction with his [...]

Iceland’s Parliament presented a bill on Tuesday that would require all public and private companies that employ more than 25 people to prove they provide equal pay for employees. If a company is unable to prove employees are paid equally through an auditing system, the company could receive fines. The legislation would apply to discrimination [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law discusses the constitutional legacy of the First World War… American entry into the First World War one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, generated significant constitutional changes that resonate a century later. The war enormously expanded the economic regulatory powers of [...]

A group of US Senators on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan bill to require government agents to get a warrant when searching electronic devices of US citizens at the border. The Protecting Data at the Border Act seeks to allow citizens to deny a request of border agents to search their electronic devices without being denied [...]

Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) , on Tuesday suspended the trial of President Michel Temer who is accused of receiving illegal donations during his 2014 campaign. Following former president Dilma Rousseff’s removal from office, her lawyers presented evidence in November that Temer received a US $295,351 deposit after the same amount was [...]