The US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted an emergency order Friday freezing the assets of traders operating in Hong Kong and Singapore. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is accusing the brokers of insider trading related to the July 23 acquisition of Canadian oil firm Nexen by China-based CNOOC Limited [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says the actions of Vladimir Putin’s regime against the life and legacy of deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky threaten international progress in basic human rights and have attracted the ire of the US Congress, the European Union and individual nations around the world…

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed a motion asking the US District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to lift a stay on the state’s challenge to the federal health care law, despite last month’s US Supreme Court ruling that the act is constitutional. Oklahoma filed its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of [...]

Pakistan Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman on Friday called on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to stop using drone strikes in a video conference debate with White House War Adviser Douglas Lute. Rehman stated earlier this month that she believes the use of unilateral drone attacks violates international human rights laws and standards [...]

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday ordered a stay of execution for convicted killer Marcus Druery who had been scheduled for execution on August 1st. Druery has been diagnosed as schizophrenic by both prison and private doctors, and a county judge on Tuesday refused to order a psychiatric evaluation prior to his execution. [...]

After four weeks of international negotiations, the deadline to approve an agreement at the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty passed on Friday without consensus. The proposed regulations, entitled the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), would have required the support of all 193 member states of the UN to be approved. Internationally, many blame the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Nicole Huberfeld of the University of Kentucky College of Law says that the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA relied on a strange reading of the law, where the Medicaid expansion was deemed to be both a part of the Medicaid Act and not [...]

Google called Friday for the dismissal of a class action lawsuit accusing the company of infringing upon authors’ copyrighted works when it scanned books for its digital library. In a filing with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , Google argued that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the Authors Guild [...]

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Friday that four men responsible for killing seven UN officials during an armed conflict near the border town of Tai were arrested in Liberia . The seven UN peacekeepers, all from Niger, were killed in a cross-border raid in early June. The attack was believed to be directed at [...]

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of the Sarayaku Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon when the state allowed the Argentine oil company CGC to encroach on Sarayaku traditional lands in the early 2000s without the Indigenous People’s consultation. The court found that the Ecuadorian state [...]