The Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott on Tuesday began its investigation into the state’s stand your ground law . The task force is holding its first public hearing Tuesday morning and parents of Trayvon Martin , a 17-year-old African American high school junior, will testify before the [...]

A spokesperson for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Tuesday that the Libyan government has failed to explain why four ICC staff members are being detained, and their continued detention is a violation of international law. A judicial source in Libya told reporters Monday that the four will remain in “preventative” detention for 45 days [...]

New York City on Monday filed a derivative suit in Delaware Chancery Court against Wal-Mart alleging that both officers and board members of the company breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders by improperly handling reports of bribery that occurred in Mexico. The allegations of bribery and the alleged cover up that followed first became an [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ivan Milosevic, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is the author of the eleventh entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He dissects the history of the former Yugoslavia in an effort to explain [...]

A judge for the Middlesex Superior Court in Massachusetts on Friday rejected a challenge raised by public school children and their parents challenging the inclusion of the phrase “under God” in the US Pledge of Allegiance. In her decision, Judge S Jane Haggerty ruled that the inclusion of the phrase does not automatically convert the [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California expressed his concern on Friday that the plaintiffs may not have sufficient evidence to proceed with their gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart. Although they filed an amended lawsuit in Wal-Mart v. Duke with the state court narrowing their claims to California stores, [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released on Monday the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report documenting that the overall rate of violent crimes has decreased throughout the nation. The report was compiled from information gathered from around 14,000 law enforcement agencies for both 2010 and 2011. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter declined 1.9 percent, and forcible [...]

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday indicted former Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Abdul Alim on 17 counts of crimes against humanity, making him the seventh high-profile leader to be indicted, Bangladesh’s national news agency reported. Alim and other participants in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan face charges for alleged [...]

Victims of alleged torture and international law violations that took place overseas filed their supplemental brief to the US Supreme Court Monday arguing that the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (ATS) is not limited to torts that occur in the US. The brief argues that because the 18th century statute was enacted to prosecute piracy, [...]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to adopt a new anti-corruption law to comply with the UN Convention against Corruption . The new plan will be created by the state’s Audit Bureau which is the sole authority for fighting corruption and has the role of safeguarding public funds and curbing financial malpractices. Hareb bin Saeed [...]