Federal prosecutors charge New York attack suspect with terrorism
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday leveledd two criminal charges against the New York attack suspect, Sayfullo Habibullavic Saipov. Saipov appeared before Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses of the Southern District of New York ...
HRW: Australia is failing to protect offshore refugees from violence
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report on Wednesday condemning Australia and Papua New Guinea's (PNG) failure to protect the refugees in their borders from physical violence. According to HRW, approximately 770 refugees in PNG have...
New Mexico files lawsuit against opioid pharmaceutical companies
New Mexico filed a lawsuit Thursday against big opioid producing pharmaceutical companies, alleging the corporations are responsible for the Opioid Epidemic flooding the state and specifically small rural communities. Filed in the First Judicial District...
Senior District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California on Thursday blocked a lawsuit filed by the state of Wyoming against Volkswagen AG (VW) over the diesel emission scandal. The...
Illinois governor signs voter registration, immigration bills
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law on Monday a bill to limit detention of immigrants and another to simplify voter registration. The first, Senate Bill 31, also known as the TRUST Act , limits local local...
A South Korean court sentenced billionaire head of Samsung Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail for bribery on Friday. The Seoul Central District Court found that Lee paid former president...
The Call for a National Emergency in Response to the Opiate Epidemic
JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and Sarah A. Noe of the University of Pennsylvania Law School discuss the recent national call for a Presidential state of emergency...
Gagging Attorneys: A Critical Look at the ABA "Anti-Discrimination" Rule
JURIST Guest Columnist Bradley Abramson of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses the new ABA Model Rules and potential first amendment concerns ... The new ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) prohibits attorneys from engaging in "harmful," "derogatory," or "demeaning" speech in any activity...
"Vive la République, Vive la France": Macron's Foreign Policy in Muslim and Middle Eastern World
JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Arafa of Indiana University discusses the new French president, Emmanuel Macron's foreign policy in Muslim and Middle Eastern world ... Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old and the ex-minister of economics, is now the France's new president after...
State attorneys general announce joint investigation into opioid manufacturer practices
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general from Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas on Thursday announced joint investigations into the marketing and sales practices of the manufacturers of opioid painkillers. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey stated:...
