The Ugandan Parliament will pass a highly controversial anti-gay bill by the end of 2012, the parliament’s speaker said on Monday. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told the Associated Press that the bill reflects the will of a majority of the Ugandan people. Religious figures in Uganda appealed to the parliament to pass the bill prior to [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ian Hayes, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the eleventh article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. He argues for the application of Staub v. Procter Hospital to Title VII claims to promote justice for [...]

The Philippines Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not allow the live broadcast of the trial over the November 2009 Maguindanao Massacre . This decision reverses a 2011 decision to allow a live broadcast of the trial of several members of a clan accused of killing 57 people, including 31 journalists, who supported [...]

Voters in Ireland on Saturday approved a constitutional amendment on children’s rights that changes existing wording in the constitution to make certain rights more explicit. The new article focuses on making several case law principles explicitly protected in the constitution. First, the amendment repealed Article 42.5 which outlines the cases in which the state may [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is collecting evidence for possible new war crimes charges against Muammar Gaddafi supporters and opposition groups arising out of crimes committed during last year’s civil war . According to an exclusive Associated Press interview , the ICC is specifically investigating crimes committed by rebel forces against Gaddafi loyalists [...]

HTC and Apple announced Saturday that they have reached a global settlement dismissing all patent lawsuits between the parties. The conflict between the two companies arose after Apple initially filed suit against HTC in the US District Court for the District of Delaware in March 2010 alleging that HTC infringed several of Apple’s patents , [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged South Sudan to reverse an expulsion order against a UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) staff member, claiming the government has given no good reason to support the order. Pillay said that since the government has not provided any evidence of serious misconduct by [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Friday preliminarily approved a proposed settlement of $7.2 billion between merchants and Visa and Mastercard , which would be the largest settlement ever made in an antitrust case. This would end a seven-year class action against Visa and Mastercard alleging [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on Friday in Shelby County v. Holder to determine whether Congress exceeded its authority when it renewed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . Section 5 requires jurisdictions with a history of preventing minority groups from voting to receive preclearance from the US Department of Justice [...]

Opponents of Washington’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage conceded defeat Thursday in their efforts for a referendum veto. Referendum 74 gave Washington voters the choice to accept or reject the state same-sex marriage legislation, which was signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire in February. While the referendum was too close to call for most [...]