The Puerto Rico Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would restructure the island’s estimated $9 billion debt. After the Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved the bill on Monday, the Puerto Rico Senate approved the following day with the House amendments. The legislation will be presented to Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla to sign. The debt [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University discusses President Obama’s refusal to make a recess appointment to fill the present vacancy on the US Supreme Court… In refusing to make a recess appointment to fill the present vacancy on the US Supreme Court, President Obama is taking [...]
North Carolina voters in two racially formulated voting districts filed a response in the US Supreme Court Tuesday rejecting the merits of the state’s request to a stay a district court order to redistrict prior to the 2016 primary on March 16. The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina previously ordered [...]
The French National Assembly voted Tuesday to extend the state of emergency for three months to ensure the country is able to respond to impending terrorist threats, despite concerns the bill infringes on civil liberties. Law No 1238 extends Law No. 55-385 of 3 April 1955 , which limits the state of emergency to 15 [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld a $450 million settlement between Apple and consumers who claimed that the company conspired with other e-book retailers to artificially raise the price of e-books. John Bradley was challenging the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of the settlement, which would require Apple to pay [...]
The Australian government violated the rights of former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks when they continued to detain him after a transfer deal with the US, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a report released Tuesday. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan by northern alliance forces shortly after September 11, 2011, and then sold to the [...]
South Dakota’s state senate on Tuesday passed a bill which, if approved by the governor, will make South Dakota the first state to enact bans on opposite-sex bathroom and shower use in public schools. The Student Physical Privacy Act, which was approved in a 20-7 vote, requires students to choose the bathroom they use based [...]
The city of Chicago on Tuesday agreed to settle a case alleging job discrimination against police department applicants. Under the settlement, Chicago will pay $2 million in back pay and other benefits to 47 job candidates rejected under a residency requirement during the 2006 hiring cycle. The requirement stated that an applicant must have lived [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Katharine Suominen of St. John’s University School of Law, Class of 2016, is the eleventh author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Suominen discusses the dangers of the court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby…Imagine Occupy Wall Street protests break out again, [...]
The Pakistani province of Sindh on Monday became the first province to legalize Hindu marriage under the marriage registry in the nation. Under the new law , Hindus over the age of 18 can register their marriages and the law will apply retroactively. Proponents of the new law argue that it will help increase the [...]
