JURIST Guest Columnist Manoj Mate of Whittier Law School discusses the National Judicial Appointments Commission… Over the past months, the political whirlwinds surrounding efforts by Narendra Modi’s BJP government to change India’s judicial appointments system have given way to a storm of constitutional contestation. Since 1993, India’s top judges, including the chief justice and senior [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremiah A. Ho of the University of Massachusetts School of Law, discusses the substantial federal question underlining in Obergefell v. Hodges… Last month the US Supreme Court ruled on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges and ushered in the decision that the fundamental right to marriage applies not only to opposite-sex couples [...]

Israel’s attorney general on Monday ordered a criminal probe into excessive residential spending by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The announcement came after the state comptroller reported that large sums of public money were spent on food, furniture, cleaning and gardening at Mr. Netanyahu and his wife’s official residence in Jerusalem and their private [...]

US regulators on Tuesday ordered Citigroup to refund $700 million to nine million credit card customers, along with a $70 million fine for illegal and deceptive practices.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered the bank and its subsidiaries to refund its customers after finding that Citi marketed or offered credit card add-on products such as [...]

Eleven Cambodia opposition members on Tuesday were sentenced to long-term prison terms for participating in July 2014 clashes related to the closing of a protest site. Three of the eleven individuals, all part of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) , have been handed twenty year sentences . Lawyers, CNRP supporters, and rights groups believe [...]

A Mexican federal official on Friday announced that seven of those who were being questioned regarding the prison escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have been formally arrested. Originally sentenced for conspiracy to distribute and import cocaine, Guzman escaped Mexico’s highest security prison, Altiplano, by tunnel on July 11. Government officials have maintained [...]

The Maldives Parliament on Tuesday voted 78-2 in favor of impeaching Vice President Mohamed Jameel accusing him of neglecting his duties. Jameel had been deputy to President Yameen Abdul Gayoom since their election victory in 2013. At the center of this impeachment is thought to be an exchange for concessions for jailed opposition leader and [...]

Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS officer known as the “accountant of Auschwitz,” on Monday appealed the four-year jail sentence imposed on him last week. Groening’s attorney has submitted an appeal in the German Federal Court of Justice , arguing that the Luneburg court that convicted him incorrectly rejected reducing the sentence because of delays [...]

The US on Monday completed the re-opening of diplomatic ties with Cuba by converting the standing US Interests Section into the US Embassy Havana . The re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba was first announced by President Barack Obama on July 1st, and was slated to become fully effective by July 20th. [...]

California drought regulators on Tuesday proposed a first-of-its-kind $1.5 million fine against an irrigation district that allegedly took water illegally. The State Water Resources Control Board , a subset of the California Environmental Protection Agency , proposed the draft Administrative Civil Liability Complaint against the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District for continuing to divert water for nearly [...]