The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Monday granted a motion by Yahoo to declassify a 2008 FISC judgment that required the company to comply with government requests for user information under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) . The FISC also mandated that actual Yahoo metadata collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School says that the key issue in assessing the espionage charge against Edward Snowden is whether his disclosure of the gathering of call data harmed the US or helped a foreign nation…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday rejected a request by Kenyan officials to change the forum of their trials to Kenya or Tanzania. Joshua Sang and William Ruto are accused of inciting violence after the 2007 presidential election, in which 1,100 people died. Lawyers for both defendants filed a joint application on the grounds [...]

The Chinese education system fails to include students with disabilities , according to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, “As Long as They Let Us Stay in Class: Barriers to Education for Persons with Disabilities in China,” is based on more than 60 interviews with students with disabilities and [...]

A judge for Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court on Monday stayed the execution of death row inmate Warren Lee Hill , which was scheduled for 7:00 PM that night. Hill’s attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a statement Monday afternoon announcing that the court had decided to delay the execution in order to hold a briefing on [...]

Prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) sentenced 90-year-old former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) on Monday to 90 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Ghulam Azam was found guilty of five charges of planning, conspiracy, incitement, complicity and murder during the war. [...]

Egypt authorities on Saturday announced a criminal investigation of ousted president Mohamed Morsi , who was deposed on July 3rd by the Egyptian military. Prosecutors have reported that they are investigating complaints which include charges of spying, ruining the economy and inciting violence. The complaints, which were formally filed by an unidentified citizen, will allow [...]

Microsoft Corp filed a lawsuit on Thursday against US Customs officials accusing them of refusing to follow an import ban issued in May 2012 against Google, Inc. by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) . The trade agency had issued the ban after deciding that Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility devices infringed a Microsoft patent for [...]

The Texas Senate passed an abortion bill which will ban abortions after twenty weeks, require abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers, dictate the usage of the drug RU486 and require abortion doctors at clinics to have admitting privileges at hospital within a 30 mile radius. Opponents of the bill, including Planned Parenthood of Texas [...]

Attorneys representing Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Protect Marriage on Friday filed a petition asking the Supreme Court of California to halt same-sex marriages. In the petition, the attorneys argued that U.S. Supreme Court’s Hollingsworth v. Perry did not rule directly on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 , California’s same-sex marriage ban. ADF further claimed [...]