The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in seven cases. In Benisek v. Lamone , the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Maryland’s 2011 electoral map. The petitioners allege that their district was re-drawn to favor Democrats as retaliation against them for their support of Republican candidates. A three-judge panel of the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Julia Selman Ayetey of McGill University discusses the UK Space Industry Bill… The global space market was valued at $329 billion in 2016 and private sub-orbital flights and launches of small satellites alone are anticipated to be worth £25 billion pounds over the next 20 years. It is therefore unsurprising that the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Shaunee Morgan and John Peng of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South discuss the need to recognize the growing violations surrounding detained immigrants on Human Rights Day… Institutions and governments across the world will celebrate the 70th Human Rights Day on December 10, commemorating the [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The High Court of South Africa ruled Friday that President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of a State Prosecutor who would decide whether to reinstate corruption charges against was invalid. Argentinian Judge Carlos Bonadio ordered the arrest of current senator and former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: California’s Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its suggested standards for improving literacy rates for grade school children. Deputy Director Leandra English filed an amended [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeff Shafer of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses expression’s reliance on context in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop … Two perpendicular lines: a cross. A church architectural committee asks a sculptor to design one for placement atop the steeple over its new sanctuary. Delighted, he agrees. The KKK admires the craftsmanship provided the church [...]
The High Court of South Africa ruled Friday that President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of a State Prosecutor who would decide whether to reinstate corruption charges against was invalid. Zuma appointed Shaun Abrahams to be lead prosecutor in 2015 who would decide if corruption charges—more than 800 charges including a $1.5 billion arms deal—could be brought [...]
Argentinian Judge Carlos Bonadio ordered the arrest of current senator and former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Thursday for her alleged involvement in a cover-up of Iran’s participation in a 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that left 85 people dead Kirchner served as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 before [...]
California’s Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its suggested standards for improving literacy rates for grade school children. The complaint is filed on behalf of former and current students along with teachers from multiple [...]
The US House of Representatives voted 423-3 on Wednesday to approveH. Con. Res. 90 condemning “ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine in Burma.” The resolution, submitted by Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, also called [...]
