The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in National Meat Association v. Harris that the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) , which requires observation of animals that are unable to walk for possible disease, preempts a subsequent California law requiring slaughterhouses to “immediately euthanize” on its premises any such animals. The court ruled that the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss… A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation’s largest egg producers, Sparboe Farms, documented hens mangled in [...]

The US Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion Monday in Ryburn v. Huff allowing police officers to enter a private residence without a warrant if they have a reason to anticipate violence. The parents of a high school student brought the suit, arguing that the police department violated the Fourth Amendment when officers entered [...]

Croatian citizens voted in favor of joining the EU on Sunday, despite poor turnout for the referendum. With nearly all of the ballots counted , 66 percent voted in favor of Croatia’s membership in the EU with 33 percent voting against. The remaining 1 percent of the ballots were invalid. Approximately 47 percent of eligible [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in United States v. Jones that the government’s attachment of a global positioning system (GPS) device to a vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment . The federal government sought Supreme Court review after the US Court [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday confirmed charges against four of the six suspects allegedly involved in the violence following the December 2007 Kenyan elections . Two potential presidential candidates are among the four poised to stand trial before the ICC. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Education Minister William [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Cox of the City University of New York School of Law says that the Kuwaiti national archives, which were taken by Iraqi forces in 1990, have still not been returned and keep the post-Saddam Iraq under a UN Security Council resolution aimed at having the documents returned… As the final US [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Perveen Ali, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is currently researching issues of international refugee and human rights law. Here she discusses the challenges Iraqi refugees face in returning home safely and with dignity… The 2003 war in Iraq and subsequent internal [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its annual World Report on Sunday, leading with a criticism of Western governments’ support of Middle Eastern regimes that stifle and suppress protests. The comprehensive report catalogs all of the world’s major human rights violations and gives HRW’s outlook on trends and remedies to ongoing situations. Focusing on the reverberations [...]

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will be made to testify at his genocide trial, according to a statement by judicial officials on Saturday. Rios Montt was in control of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 as a result of a coup and is being charged with crimes against humanity and genocide during his rule. He [...]