The High Court of Australia on Friday published its reasons for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) . The court originally dismissed the challenge in August but provided its reasons only this week. The TPP Act sets criminal [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Syria to release a prominent human rights lawyer and his friend believed to be detained by security forces. AI contends that both men should be released immediately unless they are charged with an internationally recognized offense. A Deputy Director for Amnesty International states that “the families of these men [...]

Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) on Thursday announced a settlement over Google’s book-scanning initiative . Authors and publishers have alleged that Google was illegally profiting off of their works by scanning more than 20 million books . One particularly contentious issue was that Google would include books in its book-scanning initiative unless [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) due to the plaintiffs’ lack of standing. Although Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder and six other citizens alleged that the PPACA violates provisions of both the US and Missouri [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged Serbia to protect universal freedoms and allow a banned pride parade for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The pride parade, which was scheduled to be held this Saturday in Belgrade, was canceled by the Serbian Ministry of Interior for security reasons. A [...]

The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Wednesday acquitted two Serbian defendants of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Dragan Neskovic and Zoran Ilic were charged with crimes against humanity for their role in the massacre at Srebrenica and other war crimes. In a press release, the court announced that the [...]

An anti-graft court in the Philippines on Thursday ordered the arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a corruption case alleging the misuse of state lottery funds. This is the third corruption case pending against Arroyo, who made bail in July after eight months of detention in an army hospital. This most recent case against [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that, in order to counter China’s attempts to expand its maritime jurisdiction, the US must become a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea…

An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced an American citizen to life in prison for funding terrorist activities in Iraq and aiding al Qaeda. Iraq’s central criminal court convicted Omar Rashad Khalil following a confession he made in which he admitted to receiving money from a Syrian man in the UAE to finance terrorist attacks. The [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Natasha Major and Marcus Childs Moore, respectively Class of 2013 and 2012 from Howard University School of Law, analyze the ruling in Apple v. Samsung and argue that granting Apple’s request for permanent injunctions against Samsung devices is an unfounded attempt to influence the marketplace from the courtroom… The Apple v. Samsung [...]