JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2025

The principle of command responsibilityenshrined in both customary international law and statutes such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court requires senior officials to be held accountable for crimes committed by subordinates if they knew or should have known about such acts and failed to prevent them.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2023

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said Friday that the Philippine government will have to learn more about the intentions of several investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before granting them entry to the country. Remulla’s comments come after current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There is a “very credible case” that the Chinese government has committed acts against the Uighur population in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that constitute genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a 105-page legal opinion published Monday.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2025

Former chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo also argued that the arrest was politically motivated to prevent Duterte from participating in the 2028 presidential race. In a video posted by his daughter on Instagram, Duterte disputed the basis of the arrest, claiming that the detention was warrantless and illegal.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2023

Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin spoke on behalf of the US and referenced that the plain text of the relevant statutes supported his argument. In a brief to the Court, the United States’ case against Halkbank presents two separate legal arguments.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

For a recent Reinventing Professionals podcast, I talked with Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief , a platform that uses AI to improve the accuracy of legal writing by identifying how well a writer’s sentence is supported by the source document. Legal writing has really specific requirements. seed round.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A hīkoi (protest march) spanning the entirety of New Zealand’s north island rallying against the government’s constitutionally consequential ‘Treaty Principles Bill’ began Monday from Cape Reinga, the country’s northernmost point.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2025

The charges outlined in the ICC warrant are based on the provisions of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute , which define crimes against humanity and war crimes. His arrest has raised concerns in Libya, with calls for government intervention to secure his release.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

” This interpretation has harmonized the statute with the First Amendment, under which “abusive language” can be criminalized only if the government proves that the language had the direct tendency to cause immediate violence by the person to whom it was individually addressed.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2025

According to the Executive Director of Amnesty International Peru, leaving approval decisions to the authorities would increase the risk of arbitrary restrictions on civil society activism and could result in the removal of organizations critical of the government from the APCI register.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2017, Oklahoma sued J&J, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals under the state’s public nuisance statute alleging that the drug manufacturers deceptively marketed opioids within the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bolsonaro has repeatedly stated that his government has been the victim of an international “campaign of lies” and asserts that no country protects the environment better than Brazil. The Rome Statute lays out the “crimes against humanity” for which the ICC is its sole adjudicator.

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JURIST

AUGUST 22, 2021

” The statute for apprehension and detention of non-citizen immigrants, 8 U.S. The government appealed, hoping that the appeals court would rule in its favor that requiring the burden of proof to be placed on the immigrant satisfied due process. However, the court held that the burden must be placed on the government.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

The report identified 11 themes common among many of the cases that signified a systemic pattern of racism, such as the use of pretextual stops that lead to excessive force, excessive use of lethal restraints, targeting of Black immigrants and complicity of legal actors in racist police killings through qualified immunity.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Thai government filed a criminal complaint against political leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit Wednesday, citing crimes against the monarchy. He criticized the government’s administration of recently developed COVID-19 vaccines. He criticized the government’s administration of recently developed COVID-19 vaccines.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

In February, Paxton issued a non-binding legal opinion stating that transgender therapy for minor children constitutes child abuse. To be clear, there has been no change in the law governing child abuse, nor will there be for at least a year, since the Texas Legislature is not currently in session and meets biennially.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Evidence suggests that the armed group has abducted boys, as young as 12, to be trained in bases in Cabo Delgado and forced to fight against the Government forces. The post HRW reports Islamic State in Mozambique is using child soldiers appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. The government moved to stay the district court’s order pending appeal, which the Sixth Circuit denied on Monday.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Kagan noted that the statute on which the lower courts relied points to the defendants profits, and that in common parlance defendant refers to the party against whom relief is sought in an action. Indeed, Kagan noted, the plaintiff cannot, and so does not, contest those points.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Hendrix , a case that exemplifies the Gordian knot that is the federal habeas corpus statute. United States that Section 922(g) requires the government to prove that the defendant knew he was prohibited from possessing a firearm. Share On Tuesday, the court heard argument in Jones v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The push follows a significant uptick in the number of active FCA investigations, the level of resources the government is putting into them, the number of agents that are working them, and the level of teamwork and coordination between US attorneys and Main Justice. In fiscal 2021, DOJ obtained $5.6 In fiscal 2021, DOJ obtained $5.6

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

Share On Thursday, the Supreme Court held that a federal prisoner cannot raise a claim of legal innocence if he has already challenged his conviction – even if that claim was unavailable at the time he filed his challenge. They could also include challenges to the conditions of detention, rather than the legality of the sentence.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

That case, he explained, made clear that the change in the legal relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant must be judicially sanctioned. Rather, he concluded, a plaintiff prevails under the statute when a court conclusively resolves a claim that materially alters the legal relationship between the parties.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Officials first brought the case in January of 2019, when the government contended Shevchenko violated Article 284.1 The statute enables the Prosecutor General’s Office to ban international organizations deemed “undesirable” to Russia’s security and national interests. Prosecutors sought five years in prison.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2024

The Law Society of Kenya issued a statement on Monday condemning an increase in the government’s road maintenance levy, calling the Ministry of Roads and Transport’s conduct “unconstitutional and procedurally flawed.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

In June 2021, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Wisconsin residents, challenging the legal status of the drop boxes. Judge Michael Bohren agreed with the plaintiffs, finding no explicit authorization for drop boxes in the statute governing absentee ballots.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Independence in no shape or form means that the lawyers or the lawyers’ association will not be responsive toward the government; rather it means that lawyers will kept away from political pressure and thus work in the best possible manner toward ensuring justice to the public.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

United States the Court held that in order to convict someone under the statute, the government must prove both that a defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to a category of persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Two years ago in Rehaif v. Decisions in both cases should come this summer.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. The case centers around a legal concept known as the “ Chevron Doctrine ,” established in the Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Canadian government Saturday announced a $2.8 Members of the not-for-profit entity will elect the directors in accordance with its by-laws, articles of incorporation and the governing corporate statute. ” The trust will be administered by a permanent board consisting of nine Indigenous directors. .”

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2021

The government relied on the text of Immigration and Nationality Act Section 1255(a) , which restricts the in-country adjustment-of-status process to noncitizens who were “inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States.”

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

The dual sovereignty doctrine applies to the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment , allowing for two sovereign entities to charge one defendant under the same set of facts under two different laws and legal authorities. The CFR is managed and funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a federal government agency.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2021

Under the 2019 decision in Rehaif , the government had to prove both that a defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to a category of persons prohibited from possessing firearms in order to convict that defendant under the statute. His conviction was vacated, and the government appealed.

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

APIB claims that Bolsonaro’s government has systematically dismantled social protection for indigenous communities and environmental protection for their territories, amounting to genocide and ecocide. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan will now decide whether to pursue the case.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As Meredith’s text message traveled between DC and Georgia, the federal government had the necessary interstate jurisdiction to prosecute him under this statute. The post North Carolina man sentenced for threatening House Speaker Pelosi after US Capitol riot appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

APRIL 20, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard opening arguments for two cases concerning legal errors and whether courts can, and should, correct them. United States , the Court is considering which provision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applies to a prisoner’s effort to re-open a judgment based on a legal error. In George v.

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