On Saturday the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused a recent cyber attack on Russia and the Kremlin. The SBU stated that the hackers behind the most recent attack are the same as those who conducted an attack on the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. Experts worldwide are still trying to decide who was [...]

In a narrow 4-3 decision , the Supreme Court of Iowa ruled on Friday that former Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner, and now chief judge of the board, Christopher Godfrey can sue high-ranking government officials, including Governor Kim Reynolds and former Governor Terry Branstad, for violating equal protection and due process rights granted by the Iowa [...]

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law on Friday which takes aim at the state’s ongoing opioid epidemic. Calling the widespread epidemic “a complex crisis that does not have one root cause, nor… a simple solution,” Mallow had initially introduced the legislation, now codified as Public Act 17-131 , in January. After months [...]

The Austria Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the government seizure of the apartment complex where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born is constitutional. The Court elaborated that “the expropriation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Braunau (Upper Austria) by law was in the public interest, commensurate and not without compensation, and therefore not unconstitutional.” The [...]

The Supreme Court of Texas held on Friday that the Houston’s benefits policy need not extend to same-sex couples. In so holding, the Court concluded that: “The Supreme Court held in Obergefell that the Constitution requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriages to the same extent that they license and recognize opposite-sex marriages, but [...]

The lower house of the German Parliament voted 393-226 Friday to legalize same-sex marriage. The decision came shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel changed her conservative stance on the issue. Although Merkel voted against the move she encouraged lawmakers to vote with their conscience instead of along party lines. Before allowing civil unions in 2001, Germany [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a previous ruling that Ohio’s execution protocol was unconstitutional. The prior ruling had put further executions on hiatus. The question was whether one of the three drugs used in the lethal injection process was sufficient to cause the inmates to lose consciousness before [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday upheld North Carolina’s Senate Bill 2 , which allows magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs. The court ruled that the plaintiffs, three couples, did not have standing to bring the case because they could [...]

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 [...]