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Supreme Court limits suits by post 9/11 detainees
The US Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Monday in Ziglar v. Abbasi that Muslim men detained in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks cannot sue top US officials. The three consolidated cases center on the arrest and detention of Middle Eastern men illegally pr (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments on offensive trademarks, detainee lawsuits
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument on two issues: a First Amendment challenge to the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act on trademarks, and whether a government official can be held individually responsible for their role in a pote (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments on deportation standards
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In Lynch v. Dimaya the court is deciding whether 18 USC § 16(b) , which defines a crime of violence, is unconstitutionally vague. Section 16(b) has been incorporated into the Immig (More) |
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Supreme Court to hear cases on 9/11 liability, cross-border shooting
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in three cases. In the three consolidated cases of Ziglar v. Turkmen, Ashcroft v. Turkmen and Hasty v. Turkmen , the court will decide whether government officials can be held liable for the decis (More) |
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Court rules former top US officials may be held liable for abuse of 9/11 detainees
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday ruled that a group of former top US officials may be held liable for the abuse of hundreds of detainees held for minor immigration violations after the events of September 11 . In a 2-1 r (More) |
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Embassy Bomber Faces Justice; What Do These Cases Say About Terrorism Prosecution?
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon discusses recent terrorism trials...On August 7, 1998, al Qaeda terrorists simultaneously attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with massive truck bombs, ki (More) |
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ACLU settles lawsuit challenging post-9/11 detentions
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached a settlement Thursday in a case against the US government challenging the constitutionality of detaining Muslim men as material witnesses without sufficient cause. The case alleged that following t (More) |
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Stanton v. Sims: A New Standard for Qualified Immunity?
JURIST Guest Columnist Angela Johnson, University of Notre Dame Law School Class of 2014, offers insight into the short per curiam decision in Stanton v. Sims issued by the US Supreme Court on November 4, 2013 which may have created a major hurdle fo (More) |
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The Second Circuit's Ghailani Decision and a Departure from the Right to a Speedy Trial
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of the Brooklyn Law School says that the Second Circuit's Ghailani decision is both novel and disturbing because the court relied on the departure from one principle—detention for the purposes of interrogatio (More) |
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Fracking Litigation
Shale gas deposits have been identified across the US and drilling efforts had begun as early as the 1940s. As natural gas extraction intensified in the early twenty-first century and environmental concerns gained publicity, some landowners filed law (More) |
Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery
On September 3, 1838, abolitionist and human rights advocate Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore by posing as a free sailor and boarding a train bound for Philadelphia. Read Douglass' 1881 tract My Escape from Slavery.
