Stephen Blanks and Corinne Reichert : "In February 2010, the NSW Supreme Court sentenced five Australian citizens who were found guilty of conspiracy to do acts in preparation for a terrorist act or acts to terms of imprisonment ranging from 23-28 years. The offenders had been arrested in 2005, and their trial lasted almost 11 [...]
Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a panel on Music, Copyright, and Free Speech as part of the ACLU's Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll series at Carnegie Mellon University… In the past 10 to 15 years, music has gone from a finite good available only in physical form from various brick and mortar retailers [...]
Nathaniel Burney : "If you are under arrest, and the police are interrogating you, they have to stop questioning when you ask to speak with a lawyer. So long as you remain in custody, they can't keep asking you to waive your right to have a lawyer present. That's coercive. Like the other Miranda rules, [...]
Mac's Shell Service, Inc., et al. v. Shell Oil Products Co. LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, March 2, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on this case.
Jackson, et al v. District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, et al, US Supreme Court, March 2, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on same-sex marriage.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in McDonald v. City of Chicago on whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses. The appeal challenges a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the [...]
Max Parmelee, Pitt Law '12, discusses the ways in which his views of racial profiling changed after attending a lecture by Pitt Law Professor David Harris and reflecting on the use of profiling by federal and local authorities… Earlier this year, Jordan Miles was walking through Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood when three plainclothes police officers approached [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Mac's Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. that a service station operator cannot recover for constructive termination under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (PMPA) when the operator continues to run the franchise with the same trademark, fuel, and premises. The US Court of Appeals [...]
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed Tuesday that attacks against Bosnian Muslims were "staged," denying any involvement in war crimes. Karadzic was appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for second consecutive day to continue opening statements in his trial for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. [...]
Barbara Coombs Lee : "The prosecutorial guidelines provide a bit of comfort and security for those citizens of the UK who would like to accompany a loved one to Switzerland if they chose to die at a clinic there. These family members embody the criteria making prosecution less likely – they are family, their role [...]
