JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Hanafi, Regional Coordinator of the Middle East and North Africa for the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, argues that it is imperative to both Morocco and the international community that it continue in its efforts to adhere to the Rome Statute…
Utah’s Fourth Judicial District Court Wednesday granted a death row inmate’s request to be put to death by firing squad. Michael Archuleta, 49, was convicted in 1989 of first-degree murder for the beating death of a college student, and is now set to be executed by firing squad on April 5. Judge Donald Eyre Jr. [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted Thursday to issue the first US license for a new nuclear power plant in over 30 years. In a 4-1 vote the NRC approved an application by Southern Company for an issuance of two Combined Construction and Operating Licenses (COL), the first such licenses ever approved for a US [...]
American Tradition Partnership, Montana Shooting Sports Association and Champion Painting have petitioned the US Supreme Court to reverse the decision by the Montana Supreme Court in Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Montana that upheld a Montana campaign finance law banning corporate independent expenditures to state political campaigns and candidates. The three groups argue that Montana’s [...]
Apple brought suit against Motorola Mobility in the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Friday seeking an injunction to stop Motorola from bringing patent claims against Apple in Germany. Motorola’s suit in Germany is over patent no. 6,359,898 . Apple contends that Motorola’s German suit violates a licensing agreement between Motorola [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the newly enacted Hungarian Constitution has significant similarities to the Mexican Constitution of 1917, particularly in its provisions dealing with the recognition of religions and the resistance to these provisions…
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may result in changes to First Amendment and abortion rights…
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday expressed its concern over the trial of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon , which involve his investigations of acts that occurred during the Spanish Civil War. Spokesperson for the OHCHR, Rupert Colville, indicated that judges should not be criminally charged for investigations performed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday denied a request filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) to hold an en banc hearing to reconsider a challenge to a Texas law that requires doctors to perform a sonogram on women before an abortion . The court’s refusal means that the [...]
Former Croatian military commander and senior interior minister Tomislav Mercep pleaded not guilty Friday for war crimes committed against Serbians during the 1990s conflict in the Balkans. The Municipal Court in Zagreb charged that he was aware of atrocities against civilians but prevented other officials from mitigating damages against them. Mercep has also been charged [...]
