The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Levin v. United States that the intentional tort exception in the Gonzales Act does not immunize individual government medical personnel against battery suits. Thus, instead of suing the entire government under the Federal Torts Claim Act (FTCA) , a plaintiff can sue the individual medical personnel [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in one new case on Monday. In Walden v. Fiore the court will consider two questions of venue and jurisdiction . First, the court will look at whether a court can exercise personal jurisdiction for a defendant to facilitate Due Process when the only contact the plaintiff has in [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson called Monday on the US government to publish the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report detailing investigations into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush presidency. According to the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Sandy Davidson of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the University of Missouri School of Law evaluates the Third Circuit’s decision to bar members of the press from reporting inside polling places…

The Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on Monday voted to impeach outgoing President Vaclav Klaus for charges of treason. After a

Yemen’s government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at least 15 men and women who were under 18 at the time of their offense. HRW urged President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi [...]

A Moscow court on Monday began preliminary hearings in the posthumous trial against Russian whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . This case marks the first time that Russia will carry out a legal proceeding against a deceased person. During the hearing, the judge is expected to set a date to begin trial, after which a state-appointed [...]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday began the trial of 94 people charged with plotting to overthrow the government. The group of defendants includes unnamed doctors, academics, lawyers and other professionals arrested over the past year and accused of forming a secret network with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and designs to raise money [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Amos Guiora of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that the US executive branch’s practice of using drones to engage in the targeted killing of suspected terrorists should be subjected to some form of judicial review…

JURIST Guest Columnist Nicolas Parke, Texas Tech University School of Law Class of 2013, discusses the ongoing debate about hydraulic fracturing… Fracking, fracing, or fraccing? Regardless of how you spell it, “fracking” is a word that more and more Americans are adding to their vocabulary. While many have heard of fracking, few truly understand the [...]