The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Thursday filed a legal challenge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) . On Wednesday, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officially granted an easement to the DAPL developer . The Cheyenne [...]
A three-judge panel in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that limits a law stripping the state’s new governor, Roy Cooper , of some of his powers. The law required Senate approval for the Governor’s Cabinet nominees, a measure never required before. Cooper and his fellow Democrats have been critical of the measure [...]
The Texas Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would effectively ban so-called sanctuary cities, requiring cities to be in compliance with federal immigration law. SB 4 would require law enforcement in cities and on college campuses to hold an arrested person in custody until immigration officials look into their immigration status. It would also [...]
The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world’s largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its inhabitants back to war-torn Somalia . The judge who halted the order said the government failed to [...]
The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would allow execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas or electrocution if the current method of execution, lethal injection, is deemed unconstitutional by a court. The legislation outlines a process wherein nitrogen gas is the first alternative, followed by the firing squad, then electrocution. Various cases [...]
African nations should not abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC) , UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng urged in an editorial Monday. Dieng, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, wrote in response to three African nations, Burundi, South Africa and The Gambia, after they announced intentions to withdraw from the court. These countries [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the US Chamber of Commerce to a rule governing retirement investment advice. The regulation requires professionals who occasionally give financial advice to be treated as fiduciaries under the revised definitions of the Employee Retirement Income Security [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday issued an order to enjoin the proposed merger of health insurance giant Anthem and Cigna . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to halt the merger in July on the grounds that the acquisition of Cigna would “substantially lessen” the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian T. Hodges of The Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses Murr v. State of Wisconsin and its potential effect on regulatory takings jurisprudence … The US Supreme Court is set to resolve a critically important question of regulatory takings law this term in the case, Murr v. State of Wisconsin, Dkt. No. 15-214. [...]
The UK House of Commons voted 494-122 Wednesday to approve HC Bill 132 , which would empower Prime Minister Theresa May to formally begin the Brexit process. The House of Commons completed its first reading of the bill late last month, two days after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the parliament must vote before [...]
