US President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law legislation concerning spending for the US intelligence community that increases protections for intelligence agency whistleblowers. The bipartisan legislation authorizes $564 million in spending over five years and specifies that employees who divulge information about possible misconduct within their agencies to intelligence committees will be protected. Supporters [...]
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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday blocked an Arizona policy barring certain immigrants from obtaining a driver’s license. The decision reversed a ruling by the US District Court for the District of Arizona , which had denied plaintiffs a preliminary injunction. The appeals court found that plaintiffs demonstrated a likelihood [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed the Compassionate Care Act into law, making New York the twenty-third state to legalize medical marijuana. The bill legalizes the possession, manufacture, use, delivery, transport or administration of medical marijuana by a designated caregiver for a certified medical use. It allows medical professionals to prescribe marijuana to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Christian Ehret of the Webb Law Firm discusses patent law in reference to Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International… Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International is the last of several patent law cases decided by the US Supreme Court in its October 2013 term. While the decision has generated considerable speculation [...]
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on Thursday filed an emergency application in the US District Court for the District of Columbia for a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from depriving the inmates of the right to pray communally during the month of Ramadan. Lawyers for petitioner Imad Abdullah Hassan have already applied for a [...]
The Bolivian National Congress on Wednesday passed legislation permitting children as young as 10 to join the workforce as long as it does not interfere with one’s education and is done independently in an effort to provide for their family. The U.N. International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Carmen Moreno stated that the new legislation would make [...]
An Egpytian high court sentenced Mohamed Badie , a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, on Saturday to life in prison for inciting violence and protests near the al-Istiqamah Mosque in the Giza. Presiding Judge Hassan Farid referred to Badie’s actions as incitment “to achieve terrorist goals.” Badie has previously been sentenced to death twice for [...]
The German government summoned the US ambassador John B. Emerson on Friday after the arrest of a man who is claimed to be a US spy working surveillance throughout the country. The German foreign ministry believes that a 31 year old employee of the German intelligence service BND has been working with foreign intelligence services, [...]
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Thursday issued a new global strategy to help countries stop detaining asylum seekers, refugees and stateless people worldwide. The UN agency is concerned for the lasting physical and psychological impacts on families, specifically children, who are placed in detention facilities upon arrival to a new nation. The new global [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that the European Commission is not being sufficiently transparent regarding negotiations with the US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) . The TTIP aims to remove trade barriers between the EU and US, and make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between [...]
