Supreme Court declines to hear General Motors ignition-switch appeal
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by General Motors (GM) on its potential liability for ignition-switch defects. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had ruled ...
Federal court strips man with al-Qaeda ties of naturalized US citizenship
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday entered an order that stripped an Egyptian-born man of his naturalized US citizenship for lying during his naturalization process. The US government had claimed that...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized their decision on Thursday to not allow the Texas prison officials to receive a shipment of lethal injection drugs that were originally seized in July 2015....
Turkish Justice Minister warns against challenge to referendum expanding presidential powers
Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Thursday that the Turkish Constitutional Court would reject any opposition challenge to a referendum that expanded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers, and the European Court of Human...
Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. The strikers say they want better medical care, more humane transfers between...
The US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday sanction against the Iranian prison company Tehran Prisons Organization and one of its senior officials, Sohrab Soleimani, for human rights abuses...
The Missouri State House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday to standardize state-wide ride sharing rules and have sent it to the desk of Governor Eric Greitens . If signed by Greitens, House Bill 130 will...
JURIST Guest Columnist James M. Grijalva discusses the recent controversy concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline...As spring emerged on the northern plains in late March, news broke of unrelated but congenerous developments in the long running sagas of two oil pipelines...
The Venezuelan government announced on Saturday that opposition leader Henrique Capriles has been banned from holding office for 15 years by the Venezuelan state comptroller. The ban, which was imposed for alleged "administrative irregularities" during his...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ali Khan discusses the potential deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, and international documents' and treaties' prohibition on state actions like deportation...Threats of deportations are evolving into a global phenomenon as nativism,...
