Search Results for: 2017-03-01

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday affirmed a settlement agreement concerning the National Football League (NFL) and payouts to retired players with certain medical conditions . The settlement,...

JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU), John L. Hick of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Dan Hanfling of the UPMC Center for Health Security and...

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday opened a probe into potential war crimes in Palestinian territories. The probe is the first step toward opening an investigation of both Palestine and...

Alex Kreit, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

JURIST Guest Columnist Stuart Ford of the John Marshall Law School says that although the International Criminal Court has encountered numerous obstacles during the first ten years of its existence, its reputation will ultimately be decided over a longer period...

A court in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia on Wednesday denied parole for former Yukos oil executive Platon Lebedev . Lebedev and his former business partner Mikhail Khodorkovsky were convicted in December and...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected an attempt to remove the phrase "so help me God" from the presidential oath. The challenge was brought by atheist Michael...

A UK plan that would have required all citizens to obtain ID cards when applying for passports by 2010 has been dropped , the Home Office said Thursday. Under current...

President Bush urged Congress on Tuesday to adopt his proposed targets for alternative fuel use as a way of combating greenhouse gas emissions a day after the US Supreme...

Officials from the joint UN-Cambodia Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal being set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Thursday that the first trials should begin in 2007. Though no...