The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a brief in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the recently passed Texas photo identification law will have a disproportionate impact on the state’s Latino voters. Further, the DOJ contends that the available record “contains significant circumstantial evidence that could support [...]
JURIST Associate Editor Yuriy Vilner is a member of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013 and an LL.M. Candidate at the Católica Global School of Law, a Lisbon-based faculty of the Catholic University of Portugal. In the final entry of a four-part series on the realities and priorities of Portuguese sovereign [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law says that the president’s remarks on judicial review of health care reform may impede Obama from making the Supreme Court an issue in the upcoming presidential election…
JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Slobogin of Vanderbilt University Law School says that a set of new guidelines for the National Counterrorism Center’s use of information contains provisions which are troubling from a privacy standpoint, and should be modified to require more congressional oversight…
The anti-trust division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York accusing Apple and other major publishers of colluding to illegally fix electronic book (e-book) prices. The complaint alleges that Apple and publishing companies, including HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, [...]
A group of minorities in France has filed a lawsuit alleging police searches are conducted on the basis of racial profiling, according to a statement made by their lawyers and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on Wednesday. The suit was filed (OSJI press release) in the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris and alleges [...]
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court (FAC) on Wednesday ruled that Switzerland is not permitted to give the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a Credit Suisse client’s account information. In a ruling that cannot be appealed, the court concluded that, because the IRS had requested information about a bank account holder for whom it merely had [...]
The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay assigned himself on Monday to preside over the tribunals of five alleged plotters of the 9/11 terror attacks . Army Col. James Pohl scheduled the hearing for May 5, only a few days after the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden . The five [...]
A complaint allegedly filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) could reopen a human rights lawsuit against Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, Reuters reported Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges wrongdoing by Humala during his service as an army officer in Peru’s San Martin province during the 1990s. The suit was dismissed by a Peruvian court [...]
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on Tuesday proposed amendments to Virginia’s voter ID legislation as passed by the General Assembly during the 2012 session. McDonnell’s amendments include extending the time a voter would have to present an ID to the local electoral board to the Friday after the election, allowing for community college identification cards as [...]
