A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Wednesday extended a restraining order blocking new Texas regulations that would require the burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains until January 27. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , who is confident the court will rule for the state, said , [...]
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Four Yemeni detainees were transferred Thursday from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia. After the detainees landed, a White House spokesman confirmed that there would likely be more Guantanamo detainees released before the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump , but no specific details were offered. The Obama administration currently hopes to release 19 of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor B. Flatt of Universtiy of North Carolina School of Law discusses the recent withdrawal of arctic lands from drilling by President Obama… On Dec. 20, 2016, President Obama withdrew all of the northern Atlantic Ocean and most of the Arctic Ocean under federal jurisdiction from oil exploration and production. The President [...]
Former prime minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj was arrested in France on Wednesday on charges of war crimes filed by Serbia. Serbia claims that Haradinaj’s unit, the Black Eagles, tortured and killed Serbian civilians. Kosovo’s current president, Hashim Thaci , condemned the arrest , calling it a threat to stability in the region. Haradinaj appeared [...]
Egyptian activist and youth leader Ahmed Maher, known for his role in the 2011 revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak , was released from prison on Wednesday following his arrest in 2013. Maher, as well as fellow activists Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel, had been arrested for protesting against a new law that effectively bans [...]
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) , which is under the US Department of Labor, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Google over the company’s refusal to provide requested items related to their compensation policies. Google is under an Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions contract with the federal government. Part of that contract includes [...]
Several militias operating in Iraq have been committing war crimes using weapons manufactured in 16 different countries, including the US, Russia, China and Iran, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Thursday. The report discusses the actions of four particular militia groups—Munathamat Badr (Badr Brigades or Badr Organization), ‘Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), [...]
Lawyers representing a German owner of a diesel-powered Volkswagen (VW) vehicle equipped with a software that could cheat emissions tests filed the first lawsuit seeking compensation for damages on Tuesday. According to the Braunschweig district court , the German firm MyRight filed on behalf of only a single VW consumer effected by the scandal. Although [...]
The Florida Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph order Wednesday informing judges and prosecutors that the state’s death penalty procedure is unconstitutional, marking the second such order in three months. Attorney General Pam Bondi argued that, although the court ruled the statute unconstitutional in October , prosecutors should be able to apply the death penalty to [...]
An Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron in March was been found guilty of manslaughter Wednesday. The three-judge military panel in Tel Aviv ruled against Sgt Elor Azaria. Chief judge Col Maya Heller gave a lengthy verdict reading in which the court ruled that accounts of the [...]
