Several news outlets reported Monday that US citizen Mohamed Jubair Monir, 62, of Bangladeshi descent was arrested in Bangladesh in late December for allegedly committing war crimes, including rape and murder, during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, though Monir was only 13 years old during the war. Monir’s family offered pictures and [...]
The Tbilisi Appeals Court in the Republic of Georgia on Wednesday rendered a precedent-setting decision for the victim in what is believed to be the country’s first sexual harassment lawsuit against an employer. Journalist and actress Tatia Samkharadze filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment against Shalva Ramishvili, her former boss at Imedi TV in 2016. In January 2018, [...]
The American Bar Association (ABA) announced Wednesday that it will join the Clooney Foundation for Justice and Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and Human Rights Clinic to establish the TrialWatch initiative, which will help to monitor and prevent human rights violations around the world. The initiative includes plans for training, monitoring, and advocacy to identify [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday upheld New Jersey’s law limiting the amount of ammunition that can be held in a single firearm magazine. New Jersey established the law in response to the dramatic spike in active and mass shootings in the twenty-first century. The court cited statistics to show [...]
The New York Court of Appeals on Wednesday held that a non citizen charge with a crime that, if convicted, could mean deportation, is entitled to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment. The defendant was charged with several felony crimes, but was able to plead down the charges to misdemeanors. As such, he was [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that Alaska’s law governing the aggregate amount of campaign contributions to candidates from nonresidents violated the First Amendment. The plaintiffs are three individuals and a subdivision of the Alaskan Republican party. Though four provisions of the law were at issue before the court, the provision struck [...]
Results released Monday show that voters in Mexico approved President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s 10 pet projects, despite low voter turnout. The vote results were criticized for lack of specificity in the description of the projects and poor voter turnout with only 1 in 90 citizens voting. Only 946,168 people participated in the referendum. All projects [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case concerning an appeal of class action status and a capital case challenging Oklahoma’s jurisdiction over a crime committed in Native American territory. The first case, Nutraceutical Corp. v. Lambert, concerns the application of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23(f), which several courts have [...]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his support for the FIRST STEP Act, which aims at reforming the prison system to better rehabilitate individuals upon re-entering society. The Act “uses a targeted approach toward a specific population of Federal prisoners who will eventually be released,” and aims to “promote prisoner participation in vocational training, [...]
The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Tuesday struck down the admissibility of breathalyzer tests used for nearly 20,667 drunk driving convictions due to a former officer’s misconduct in calibrating the devices. New Jersey State Police’s Alcohol Drug Testing Unit coordinator Marc Dennis was indicted in 2016 for failing to properly calibrate the Alcotest breathalyzers used to charge [...]
