The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in two cases on Monday that schools cannot punish students for speech or writing created outside the school environment. In JS v. Blue Mountain School District , a female middle school student created, on her own computer, a MySpace profile mocking the school principal. The [...]
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a challenge Monday to the newly signed Texas law requiring a sonogram be done before a woman can have an abortion. The CRR filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on behalf of a class of physicians who perform abortions claiming [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday pledged to work with opposition leaders to build the country’s new constitution. Erdogan recently won his third consecutive term in parliamentary elections, but his Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to win a majority of seats in parliament, leaving the AKP without power to draft a constitution [...]
Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Tuesday to withdraw an invitation for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to participate in an event there and to arrest him if he travels to the country . Al-Bashir is scheduled to participate in the Langkawi International Dialogue , hosted by Malaysia later this month. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued [...]
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Monday appealed the dismissal of a case over two Guantanamo Bay detainees,Yasser Al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia and Salah Al-Salami of Yemen, who committed suicide while in detention in 2006. The CCR filed the appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on behalf [...]
The UN on Monday expressed concern over violence in Syria and urged the Syrian government to stop using force against protesters. Nearly 1,200 people have been killed and 10,000 displaced since protests erupted in February. UN Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos urged the Syrian government to investigate the killings and praised border nations [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan that a Nevada ethics law that requiring government officials to recuse themselves from votes where they have a conflict of interest is constitutional. The Nevada Ethics in Government Law requires government officials to recuse themselves from a vote where the person in [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Janus Capital Group v. First Derivative Traders that a service provider cannot be held primarily liable in a private securities fraud suit for aiding and participating in another company’s misstatements. Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act prohibits any manipulation or deception in connection with [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation that in a trust relationship between the government and a Native American tribe the government does not have to release confidential communications with its attorney under the “fiduciary exception” to attorney-client privilege. The Jicarilla Apache Nation attempted to compel through discovery certain [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court decision in Flores-Villar v. United States upholding a gender-based distinction in two former sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Justice Elena Kagan took no part in the decision, and the court split 4-4, resulting in the decision by the US Court of Appeals [...]
