According to an official US government document , a man who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been held without charge at Guantanamo Bay for 13 years was a victim of mistaken identity. Mustafa Abd-al Qawi Abd-al-Aziz al-Shamiri was held as a courier and trainer for Al Qaeda. The Department of Defense (DOD) [...]
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the criminal prosecution of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other US government officials for their participation in torture programs following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack. The report found that the Obama administration faces no legal obstacles that would serve as impediments preventing investigation of torture allegations [...]
A UN human rights expert on Monday urged states to reexamine their unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) imposed on Sudan, which impact innocents instead of political elites. Idriss Jazairy, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions, asserted that UCMs adversely impact the enjoyment of human rights. He maintained that there was a lack of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Keith King of St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2016 is the sixth author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. King discusses the advantages of state-sponsored banking systems such as the Bank of North Dakota and the need to serve [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs that a California woman injured in a train accident in Austria fell outside the commercial activity exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and was barred from recovery in the US. Berkeley, the victim, believed she was entitled to sue in federal court [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Manning the court will resolve the circuit split on whether Section 27 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 provides federal jurisdiction over state-law claims based on violations or desired enforcement of the act. The [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a Turkish court order blocking access to YouTube violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . The Ankara Criminal Court of First Instance imposed the order primarily on the ground that YouTube contained approximately 10 videos that were considered insulting [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland ruled Monday that the display of a prominent cross-shaped war memorial in a public park operated by Prince George County does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The monument, known as the “Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial,” is a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the recent Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act… Over the past few years, Congress made many attempts to pass cyber threat data sharing legislation. Until this year, these prior attempts had all been unsuccessful. However, in April 2015, the House of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Frans von der Dunk of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law discusses the recent US Space Launch Competitiveness Act… On November 25, 2015, President Obama signed into law the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262). This Act encompasses four titles: I. Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (acronym: SPACE), [...]
