The US Senate on Monday voted 61-30 to move forward with the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) , which prohibits employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. As federal law currently stands, employers are only prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, sex, national [...]
US Attorney General Eric Holder said at an unrelated press conference on Monday that the slow pace of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, would have been avoided had he been tried before a federal civilian court. The military trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other co-conspirators, which [...]
The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries on Monday urged governments to implement a binding international agreement to regulate the activities of private military and security companies (PMSCs). The working group found that current national legislation insufficiently addresses PMSC activities, due to inadequacies in registration and licensing of these companies and the lack [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Samar Warsi, a legal fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, says that courts must closely scrutinize the reach and access the government has to information when crafting Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in the digital age…
Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations released on Monday. The report, entitled “Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror,” [...]
Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups on Monday filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to reinstate a previous injunction blocking the implementation of a Texas law placing new restrictions on abortion. The disputed restriction requires that doctors performing abortions must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Walden v. Fiore the court heard arguments on two questions of venue and jurisdiction . Gina Fiore and Keith Gipson were traveling to Nevada. They were searched in a layover in Atlanta, Georgia, where their money was seized as evidence of drug transactions. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Asch, Vermont Law School Class of 2014, discusses United Air Regulatory Group v. EPA and argues that the petitioners lack standing to challenge EPA’s controversial rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources … In Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (certiorari granted October 15, 2013), the Supreme Court must decide [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case concerning an attempt by the Oklahoma state government to resurrect a state law that limited the uses of the abortion drug RU-486 . The one-line dismissal of Cline, et al., v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice stated in its entirety that, “the writ of certiorari is [...]
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was granted bail on Monday in a criminal case relating to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during an operation ordered by Musharraf on Islamabad’s Red Mosque, which left more than 100 dead. Musharraf was arrested on these charges on October 10. Musharraf’s bail is set to be [...]
