Search Results for: 2017-05-17

European Union (EU) antitrust regulators fined Facebook 122 million dollars on Thursday for misleading information regarding a deal for WhatsApp . The European Commission , found that in order to avoid anti-trust concerns, Facebook...

Former FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to the investigation of Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued the order in place of Attorney General...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the legal framework of a potential Trump impeachment...Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has responded to the crescendo of outrage by appointing former FBI director Robert Mueller...

The US District Court of the Southern District of New York on Wednesday began hearings on the restructuring of Puerto Rico's debt. The hearing stems from Puerto Rico filing for bankruptcy protection under Article 3 of PROMESA...

The European Commission on Wednesday sent a letter asking for Italy's response to allegations that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group used illegal emissions control devices. The letter is the first step in infringement proceedings against...

Chelsea Manning was released from US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, a military prison, on Wednesday. In 2013 Manning was convicted of stealing 700,000 documents and releasing them to WikiLeaks while she was an intelligence analyst in Iraq....

Representative Jason Chaffetz , chairman of the House Oversight Committee , sent a letter to the Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Tuesday requesting "all memoranda, notes, summaries, and recordings referring or relating...

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that there are "systemic failures, such as unreasonable delays in care and unqualified medical staff leading to "dangerously subpar" medical care in US immigration detention centers. The...

The Uruguayan House of Senators approved a bill on Tuesday that would make femicide an explicit criminal offense of its own. The legislation is being passed to the House of Representatives for further approval. The bill would...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dara Purvis of Penn State Law discusses some deficiencies of a recent Texas bill resembling North Carolina's "HB2"...In January, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick introduced Senate Bill 6 (SB6), another so-called "bathroom bill" aimed at preventing transgender...