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French President Emmanuel Macron formally signed a law Monday to replace a two-year-old state of emergency established in the wake of violent Paris attacks that killed 130 people in November 2015. The new...

JURIST Guest Columnists Christina Pesavento and Ashley Baker, of the Committee for Justice: Thanks to a sex trafficking bill, the Internet's days as the bullhorn of democracy may be limited... In Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997), Justice John...

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusett on Monday held that a woman who was fired from her job for testing positive for medically prescribed marijuana could sue her former employer for handicap discrimination. The employee in...

Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo López was released from a military prison Saturday on house arrest after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered his release due to health concerns. López...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in California Public Employees' Retirement System v. Anz Securities, Inc., et al. that a member of a class action suit cannot file a new suit separately past the...

Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged Barclays and four of its former executives on Tuesday with conspiracy to commit fraud and violation of the Companies Act of 1985 by providing unlawful financial assistance. The...

Three Kentuckians filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Governor Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear challenging the state's criminal ban on medical marijuana. Dan Seum Jr., 59, Amy Stalker, 37, and Danny Belcher, 69, claim...

A new report released Tuesday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) claims that human rights violations within the Central African Republic (CAR) may amount to war crimes. The...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Sunday that the state of emergency temporarily placed on the country after last year's failed coup would continue until the country reached "welfare and peace." The state of emergency gives Erdoğan...

The Turkish Parliament elected seven new members to the country's 13-member Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) in an overnight vote Wednesday under changes made to the constitution in a referendum last...