Former Haitian coup leader Guy Philippe pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering in the Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida . Philippe was arrested on January 5 and flown to the US to stand trial on longstanding charges, after appearing on a Haitian radio show. His [...]

Three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain on Sunday after being convicted of killing three policemen in March 2014. The execution came a week after a the high court upheld their sentence, leading to the first documented execution in Bahrain in six years. The executions have been controversial and heavily critized, especially because [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Daryl Lim of The John Marshall School of Law discusses the implications and predictions of the recent Mylan investigations after 20 US states file lawsuits… In an age of divisive politics, there has been a surprising amount of consensus on containing the cost of healthcare and ensuring adequate access to it. The [...]

Japanese company Takata Corp. on Friday agreed to plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing charges and pay $1 billion as a result of a US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into airbag defects which caused the death of at least 16 people. The $1 billion is made up of a $25 million fine, $125 million to [...]

The US House of Representatives on Friday voted to begin the process of repealing the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) . The decision to dismantle the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare, by a vote of 227-198 followed the US Senate vote on the same measure on Thursday. The resolution was widely supported by Republicans, [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari to 16 new cases . The Court granted review on a variety of civil and criminal cases. The civil cases include both substantive and procedural questions. Substantively, in Sandoz, Inc. v. Amgen, Inc. and Amgen, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc. the Court will review the process for settling [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated its damages determination in the longstanding patent lawsuit between Samsung and Apple . The previous $399 million damages award was overturned by the Supreme Court last month. Apple’s damages were initially calculated on Samsung’s total profits from the sale of phones that infringed [...]

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Thursday filed for an injunction asking the Supreme Court to bar the swearing-in of president-elect, Adama Barrow . Barrow’s office responded to the injunction request with a statement that Jammeh could not exceed his five-year mandate. In an attempt to avoid a political crisis, lawmakers in Nigeria said their president, [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday to evaluate how many power plant and coal mining jobs have been lost due to air pollution regulations. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy had previously declared it would take about two years to establish [...]

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday urged the governments of European countries to do more to protect refugees from freezing conditions. There have been several reports earlier this month of refugees dying due to the exposure to extreme cold. Many refugees in Europe are currently living in facilities that are not heated. The UNHCR [...]