Holders of Argentina’s euro-denominated bonds filed a notice of appeal Friday of a US District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling barring the country from making interest payments on the notes until first paying $1.5 billion to a group of hedge funds. Also on Friday the court granted an expedited appeal by [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist G. Alex Sinha of Human Rights Watch discusses US government surveillance and the attorney-client privilege American lawyers have been concerned for some time that the legally protected space for attorney-client communications is shrinking. But recent reports detailing massive electronic surveillance by the US government suggest truly confidential communications may largely be a [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ben Weinberger of Phoenix discusses the international protection of data in the cloud… In a recent proceeding before the US Court, Microsoft was ordered to turn-over email belonging to a user of its hosted mail service. That email belonged to a user outside the US. The email itself was located on a [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law makes the historical legal case for a change in US policy on Kurdistan … Having existed through millennia of foreign dominance and occupation, hard by the Zargos mountains, Kurds have a saying older than our country. “The Kurd has no friend but the mountain.” [...]

Prince William County clerk of court Michele McQuigg in Virginia filed an emergency stay application at the US Supreme Court seeking to block the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling declining to stay its decision declaring Virginia’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional. Citizens of Virginia voted to amend the Virginia [...]

The 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Miami on Wednesday ruled that Florida’s workers’ compensation law is unconstitutional. Prior to the ruling Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a response to the court’s order to show cause, asking the court to rule the law as unconstitutional in the form of an advisory opinion. In his [...]

The Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) filed an appeal in federal court on Thursday to challenge a June ruling by the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office that found the team name “Redskins” is “disparaging of Native Americans.” The team filed its appeal in the US [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) have issued reports alleging the use of police force and intimidation tactics to dispel largely nonviolent protestors following the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Missouri on August 9 threatens constitutional freedoms. Following the shooting, riot conditions overcame the town of Ferguson, Missouri, which included looting of [...]

A court in Azerbaijan on Thursday upheld the pre-trial detention of top human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev. Aliyev was arrested in 2011 on charges including illegal commercial activity, tax evasion and abuse of power. Earlier this month he was jailed for at least three months. Aliyev’s lawyer released a statement , saying, “his detention was [...]

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed an appeal Wednesday asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a July ruling that a 2012 state law requiring abortion clinic doctors to obtain hospital admitting privileges is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the court found that the law would impermissibly limit a woman’s [...]