Libya’s newly empowered General National Congress elected Mohamed al-Megaryef as interim president on Friday. Al-Megaryef, a long time opponent of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , was elected by a vote of 113 to 85 . This is the latest in the transitional period that began with the National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC) handing [...]

Florida Administrative Judge Thomas Crapps on Friday heard a challenge to a voting rights law filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and Senator Arthenia Joyner . The new regulation, which applies to only 62 of 67 counties, creates conflicting voting rules depending on the county. HB [...]

The Supreme Court of Montana on Friday ruled that its state’s November ballots may include Initiative 166 , a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state’s congress to support an amendment to the US Constitution asserting that corporations are not people and money does not qualify as speech. The goal of the endeavor is [...]

Google Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay a record fine of $22.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after being charged with misrepresenting Apple Inc.’s Safari internet browser. Specifically, the FTC claimed that the company allowed the browser to track users’ search histories and target ads to those users in violation of a previous [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Alice Farmer, a Children’s Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch, says that in many cases of asylum, children are presumed to be adults and are detained as such in countries such as Malta…

California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a veterans charity organization alleging that its executives engaged in fraudulent fundraising, false reporting to the IRS and other illegal activities. The lawsuit alleges that the veterans charity Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) breached its fiduciary duty by spending its charitable assets on golf memberships [...]

UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Somalia and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) Augustine Mahiga on Friday welcomed the recent presidential decree on the Somalia’s National Security and Stabilization Plan (NSSP). Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed signed the NSSP on Wednesday and stated that it was an [...]

The government of Kuwait on Thursday asked the national Constitutional Court to review the legality of the country’s election law. Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Sabah stated that the decision of referral was made after all constitutional experts agreed that the 2006 election law violates the country’s constitution . He added that the purpose of [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal judge on Friday to overturn a Michigan law that bans many public agencies from providing health care to same-sex partners of their employees. The ACLU’s lawsuit argues that the Michigan law is discriminatory because it denies coverage only to domestic partners while allowing government employers to [...]

Romanian prosecutors on Friday asked the country’s Parliament to approve a planned criminal investigation against Victor Dobre, a former junior minister who oversaw public administration in the country’s Ministry of Interior until he quit this week. The prosecutors are accusing Dobre of having abused public interest by instructing an aide to write a letter to [...]