Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló , on Friday approved a law to hold nonbinding referendum that would allow the US territory to vote on statehood. The referendum, to be held in June, will allow the voters to choose between statehood and independence/free association. Those in support of Puerto Rican statehood believe approving statehood could help [...]
US President Donald Trump on Friday issued an executive order and a presidential memorandum with orders aimed at an incremental dismantling of the Obama administration’s financial regulations. Trump’s orders direct his administration to review the regulations put in place by former president Barack Obama in the wake of the 2008 financial downturn and also delay [...]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and 11 conferences agreed Friday to a $208.7 million settlement in a class action suit brought by former college athletes alleging their scholarships were illegally capped. The lawsuit specifically contends the NCAA and various conferences capped athletic scholarships at an amount lower than actual cost of attendance, in violation [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled Friday in favor of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in issuing a stay of President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration restrictions. The nationwide temporary retraining order forbids government employees from carrying out Trump’s executive order barring immigration from certain states, based on [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author Marjorie Cohn discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries … On January 27, 2017, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to institute a ban on Muslims entering the US. Trump’s executive order [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane of the Syracuse University College of Law discusses some alarming similarities between the early days of the Trump administration and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler… How did a great country with a strong and respected place in the world, a center for culture and tolerance, elect a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Doris Toyou of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses treaty translation issues in the nation of Cameroon… The 2016 unrest in the Republic of Cameroon (“Cameroon”) started when a group of Anglophone lawyers demanded an official English translation of a treaty ratified since 1996. While Cameroon has over two hundred [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the Department of Energy had completed the required investigations for the delivery of liquid radioactive waste from Chalk River in Ontario, Canada, to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The lawsuit was filed by Beyond Nuclear and other environmental [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law discusses the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch… Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee, deserves full and fair consideration by Senate Democrats, even though those who are embittered by the refusal of Senate Republican leaders last year to [...]
Fifty American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates filed 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Thursday with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to find out how administration officials are interpreting and executing the US immigration executive order. Border Litigation Project Staff Attorney with ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties Mitra Ebadolahi says, [...]
