The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday upheld an appellate court decision granting a new trial for a defendant whose rap lyrics were introduced against him in an attempted murder trial. Vonte Skinner was convicted in 2008 of shooting his associate Lamont Peterson seven times, causing Peterson’s paralysis. Among the evidence introduced against Skinner were [...]

The US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division on Monday ruled that Alabama’s recently enacted requirement that all doctors who provide abortions must have staff privileges to perform designated procedures at a local hospital is unconstitutional. Following a ten-day bench trial, Judge Myron H. Thompson noted in his opinion that the [...]

Journalists on Friday criticized the passage of a new law which restricts crime reporting within the state of Sinaloa , located in northwestern Mexico. The legislation prohibits journalists from documenting a crime scene using audio or video , essentially requiring journalists to rely on information approved by the Prosecutor’s office within the region. Journalists specifically [...]

Surrogacy campaigners on Saturday urged for the Thailand government to provide clearer regulations to address domestic and international surrogacy issues. Currently, Thailand does not have any established laws which speak to issues regarding surrogacy. The movement for surrogacy laws in Thailand has became an international issue due to a recent incident where an Australian couple [...]

Tunisia reopened its main border crossing with Libya on Saturday after suspending it on Friday after thousands of Egyptian and other foreign nationals broke through part of a fence at the Ras Ajdir crossing. Fleeing the violence in Libya, thousands of people have been migrating into Tunisia . Tunisian news agency TAP reported that authorities [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the international community to end what she called a “climate of impunity” around the Israel-Palestine conflict. In light of the bombardment of a UN school in Gaza on Wednesday, Pillay called for “real accountability considering the increasing evidence of war crimes and an ever-growing [...]

Uganda’s Constitutional Court in Kampala on Friday ruled to overturn their internationally scrutinized Anti-Homosexuality Act . It is reported that the court’s panel of five judges decided to strike down the anti-gay law because they believed it didn’t properly pass through Parliament. The Anti-Homosexuality Act criminalizes all homosexual behavior and even provides the opportunity for [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Arkady Bukh of the Law Offices of Bukh & Associates describes the recent arrest of an alleged Russian cyber criminal and its place in the history of cybercrime… The recent arrest of Russian citizen Roman Valeravich Seleznev by US authorities for alleged cyber crimes highlights one of the most difficult jurisdictional problems [...]

The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Russia must pay € 1.87 billion (USD $2.51 billion) to the former owners of the now defunct Russian oil company Yukos to compensate for unfair tax proceedings. The ECHR ruling comes three years after the court first found that Russia violated the company’s rights [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday upheld a magistrate judge’s ruling requiring Microsoft to turn over customers’ emails and other account information. Microsoft had objected to the application of US search warrants to information stored in its overseas data centers on the grounds that US law does not [...]