A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches when they tracked a suspect’s cell phone using the phone’s global positioning system (GPS) signal. Melvin Skinner was convicted on drug charges after police used the GPS [...]

A cousin of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic on Tuesday received a suspended sentence of one year in prison for hiding the accused war criminal in his house for five years before Mladic was arrested in 2011. Branislav Mladic hid his cousin at his home in the village of Lazarevo in northeastern Serbia. [...]

A judge for the US District Court Eastern District of Virginia on Monday sentenced a convicted Somali pirate negotiator to a dozen life sentences. Judge Robert Doumar sentenced Mohammad Shibin to serve 10 concurrent life sentences, two consecutive life sentences and two 20-year sentences, and ordered him to pay $5.4 million in restitution. Shibin was [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday issued an order granting Google permission to appeal the grant of class action status to numerous authors who are suing the company over its book-scanning initiative . The order grants Google permission to challenge a decision by a federal judge in May. Judge Denny [...]

A rights group reported on Monday that two lawyers who are being detained by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have started a hunger strike to demonstrate against their allegedly illegal detentions. The UK-based Emirates Centre for Human Rights (ECHR) declared that two prominent human rights lawyers, Dr. Mohamed al Roken and Dr. Mohamed al Mansoor, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Sapphire Jule King of the International Freedom Coalition argues that states need to enact comprehensive legislation to protect the homeless…

Defense lawyers for former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , Jean-Pierre Bemba on Tuesday opened their case in the International Criminal Court . Bemba is on trial for war crimes charges stemming from his activities as the military leader for the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC). It is alleged [...]

A US House of Representatives committee filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to compel Attorney General Eric Holder to produce subpoenaed documents relating to a failed arms-tracking operation. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating Operation Fast and Furious since April 2011, and its filing in the US District Court for the [...]

The Obama administration urged the US Supreme Court on Monday to uphold a policy at the University of Texas (UT) that considers applicants’ race in its admissions criteria. The case involves a white applicant to UT who argues that she was denied admission to the school because of her race, in violation of the Equal [...]

A Ukrainian Court on Tuesday postponed the tax evasion trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko after she declined to participate in the trial via a video link. A lawyer for Tymoshenko said that the court had again requested the video link option despite the fact that she had previously rejected the proposal five [...]