A court in Lisbon, Portugal, ruled on Friday that a former CIA operative shall be extradited to Italy to serve a seven-year sentence for her involvement in the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Operative Sabrina De Sousa was one of 26 former agents convicted in absentia for the [...]
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria is a war crime . According to Ban, UN teams have witnessed horrifying scenes of “the elderly and children, men and women, who were little more than skin and bones.” Ban said, ” All sides—including the Syrian government which [...]
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a Facebook feature is unlawful. Confirming two lower court decisions, the court ruled that Facebook’s “friend finder” feature constitutes advertising harassment. The lawsuit was filed in 2010 when the Federation of German Consumer Organisations challenged whether Facebook breached German consumer protection law by sending e-mails to consumers [...]
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against anti-abortion activists. The organization claims criminal misconduct by the activists who produced undercover videos discussing the handling and sale of fetal tissue at several Planned Parenthood clinics. The group, Center for Medical Progress , released several [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday certified class action status in a lawsuit alleging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) specifically targeted conservative tea party groups. Judge Susan Dlott filed a sealed order to protect privacy interests but said the seal would be lifted within three weeks. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Welch of LWC Policy Consulting, Inc. discusses legislation regulating tobacco packaging in the international context, and related health and safety issues… A recent Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) decision in Singapore represents a major setback for tobacco companies in their fight against plain packaging legislation. But are the implications of this [...]
Several human rights and civil society groups called on the international community Thursday to address the killing 140 protesters in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Amnesty International (AI) said that the protests over government plans to expand the capital of Addis Ababa into the region began peacefully, but, as they increased, military forces began to use excessive [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Latham of Vermont Law School discusses the Flint water crisis… The Flint residents poisoned by lead-contaminated drinking water were not harmed as a result of some sudden, unexpected natural disaster that left behind in its aftermath thousands of destroyed lives. Sadly, the residents of Flint were the victims of local, state [...]
The Ontario Superior Court on Thursday ruled that police orders requiring telecommunications companies to hand over cellphone user data breached the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms . The orders, labeled “tower dumps,” demanded that Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. provide the police with personal information for more than 40,000 individuals, including their [...]
Tamara Fields, the widow of a defense contractor killed in an Islamic State (IS) terrorist attack in November, filed suit Wednesday against social media website Twitter alleging the company knowingly permitted IS to use their network to spread extremist propaganda. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [...]
