Search Results for: 2017-05-18

Former congresswoman Corrine Brown was convicted of fraud on Thursday. Brown represented the Jacksonville, Florida district from 1993 to 2017 as part of the Democratic party. She had lost re-election last fall after her indictment. Brown was convicted of 18...

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...

In response to the mass execution of 15 people in Jordan on Saturday, several human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) , condemned the hanging as being secretive and conducted "without transparency. This mass execution was...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday approved an 18-article bill that would provide significant changes to Turkey's constitution. A public referendum vote will be held on April 16 to see if the changes...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Charter Communications Inc.'s subsidiary Spectrum for allegedly failing to deliver promised Internet speeds to customers. The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme...

JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming "repeal and replace" strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday declined to delay the execution of convicted killer Ricky Gray, which is scheduled to take place January 18. Gray's attorneys argued in December...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday asked a federal judge to issue an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed in February . The ACLU is attempting to block a...

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...

Lawmakers in Vietnam voted on Tuesday to pass a law granting transgender people the right to change their gender on legal documents. The new law was approved by 282 of 366 law makers after the National Assembly's Standing...