Army Col. Denise Lind refused Wednesday to dismiss Espionage Act charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly transferring vast amounts of classified information to Wikileaks . The ruling will allow the discovery hearing to continue with the official trial scheduled to begin in September. Manning’s defense argues that many others had access to his workplace [...]
The Maryland Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down a law allowing police to collect DNA from individuals arrested for violent crimes and burglaries, finding it an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment . The question was whether the government interest in collecting and testing a DNA sample without a warrant outweighs the intrusion on [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Monday challenged European governments to do more to address discrimination against Muslims , especially in the areas of employment and education. The report states that many women are denied jobs or access to classrooms simply because they are wearing traditional forms of dress, such as a headscarf . Men also reportedly [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC that § 6501(e)(1)(A) of the IRS code does not apply to an overstatement of basis. Ordinarily, the government must assess a deficiency against a taxpayer within “3 years after the return was filed.” The three-year period is extended to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Steven Fazzi, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, is a Legislative and Comment Editor for the McGeorge Law Review. Here he argues that the Supreme Court should find federal law preempts only two provisions of Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act… Immigration law and its enforcement are [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak on US sovereign immunity in suits involving “trust or restricted Indian lands.” David Patchak filed suit to prevent the Secretary of the Interior from holding land in trust for a Michigan Indian tribe. The district court dismissed his suit [...]
US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court on Monday, appealing the dismissal of his lawsuit against US officials for allegedly illegally detaining him at a military jail in South Carolina. Padilla’s lawsuit claims nominal monetary redress against Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta , former defense [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and Moshe Marvit, a labor and employment discrimination lawyer, say that it is time to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to include the individual’s right to organize a union…
JURIST Guest Columnist David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, and others modeled after it, have already achieved their true goal of intimidating Latinos into leaving these states…
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has ruled that Title VII employment discrimination protections extend to transgender individuals. The decision came as a result of an employment discrimination complaint filed by the Transgender Law Center (TLC) on behalf of Mia Macy, a transgender woman who was denied a job as a ballistics technician at the [...]
