JURIST Guest Columnist Mailee Smith, Staff Counsel at Americans United for Life, argues that legislation requiring ultrasounds before an abortion are constitutional under Supreme Court precedent and serve an essential medical purpose…
A judge for Wisconsin’s Dane County Circuit Court on Thursday denied a motion to remove a temporary injunction against a controversial new law requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls. Judge David Flanagan said that the state did not produce enough evidence to show that the injunction will cause it irreparable harm. He [...]
The Jayapura district court in Papua, Indonesia on Friday convicted five men of treason for declaring the province’s independence and raising an outlawed separatist flag at a peaceful pro-independence rally in October. The men include the proclaimed president of West Papua, Forkorus Yaboisembut, and four other peaceful protesters, each of whom was convicted of treason [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Frances Contreras, Director of the Higher Eduction Program at the University of Washington, says repealing Proposition 209 in California would reinstate a vital admissions tool for underprivileged students…
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances expressed concern on Wednesday over the state of enforced disappearances in Mexico. The Working Group, a panel of five independent human rights experts, found a “chronic pattern of impunity demonstrated by the absence of effective investigations in cases of enforced disappearances.” In their report on the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Thursday dismissed a motion to reinstate Saudi Arabia as a defendant in the civil compensation lawsuit by victims and commercial insurers against the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks . Judge George Daniels found no sufficient basis to grant [...]
The Sri Lankan government is threatening peace with the minority Tamils in the Northern Province, the International Crisis Group reported Friday. The report states that the Sinhala majority is encroaching on Tamil land, and the government maintains an excessive military presence in the province. A 25-year civil war between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers [...]
The Mississippi House of Representatives voted 70-47 Thursday to approve a controversial immigration reform bill . The “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” is based off of Arizona’s SB 1070 , which has been the subject of national debate and federal litigation . As originally introduced, the Mississippi legislation would have required public [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Volha Samasiuk is a LL.M. Candidate from the University of Arkansas School of Law, and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. She analyzes how the FDA currently protects the public from radiation contaminated food in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and suggests [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Wednesday joined special rapporteurs from the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in urging governments around the world to stop reprisals against individuals and groups seeking to cooperate with UN and regional human [...]
