JURIST Contributing Editor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law, joined by JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Duff of the University of Wyoming College of Law, Craig Jackson of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and Leland Ware of the University of Delaware, say that the recent proposal to allow the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ordered the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy (DADT) to remain partially in place in order for the court to fully consider the issues concerning the policy’s complete repeal. The order follows a motion made by the Obama administration on Thursday asking the court to [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law on Thursday that will place restrictions on abortion by requiring that clinics warn women of the health hazards associated with the practice. Abortions in Russia are free at any licensed medical clinic, and the only restrictions on the practice since the end of the Soviet Union ended have [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday unanimously rejected a constitutional challenge to the full-body scans conducted at airports by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) . The appeals court held that the use of full body scanners , also known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), does not violate the [...]
Richard Dicker, Director of International Justice at Human Rights Watch, argues that any political deal allowing Muammar Gaddafi to avoid prosecution before the ICC would compromise peace and deny the victims of crimes against humanity the possibility of redress…
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will open an inquiry into whether journalists working for the media company News Corporation (News Corp.) and its subsidiaries violated US laws by hacking into the mobile phones of 9/11 victims. The FBI said that it had begun to examine [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Steven D. Schwinn of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago says that the health care litigation has provided a forum for novel Tenth Amendment and federalism claims, which were properly ignored by the Sixth Circuit in its recent ruling upholding the individual health care mandate…
Rates of violent crime along the US-Mexico border have been declining for several years, according to a USA Today analysis released Thursday. The study indicated that, on average, US border cities were safer than other cities in the same states, with border cities maintaining lower crimes rates than the national average. Federal crime statistics, interviews [...]
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled Friday that the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) was right to order UBS to disclose information to the US on more than 250 of the bank’s clients. FINMA issued the order in February 2009 after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) accused UBS of assisting Americans in [...]
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Thursday said he will not sign legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The measure imposes penalties on doctors who fail to comply with the new restrictions. It would provide some exceptions, permitting abortions of viable fetuses only when the woman’s life is endangered by a physical [...]
