JURIST Guest Columnist Naree Chan of Legal Templates LLC discusses how technology can help with disparities in justice… The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. This has major implications for how justice is defined. The rich can afford big law firm prices, while the poor can qualify for free or subsidized legal [...]
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked lower court ruling allowing both partners in same-sex couples to be listed as the “birth parents” on birth certificates of their children. The court and state health department will, however, allow the three same-sex couples who brought suit to have their children’s birth certificates amended to list [...]
Interpol agents on Thursday announced the arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, who had a USD $5 million bounty . Ntaganzwa, who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape and sexual violence, was apprehended in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is accused [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary S. Holland from the New York University School of Law discusses the legality of censoring speech on vaccines and autism… In a recent guest column, Professors James G. Hodge, Jr. and Doug Campos-Outcalt explore ways to limit presidential candidates’ speech about a link between vaccines and autism. Noting recent comments by [...]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the decisions on how to do so. The Every Student Succeeds Act revises the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind [...]
The European Commission on Thursday initiated an infringement action against Hungary’s new asylum law and the country’s response to the refugee situation. Hungary recently erected a fence along its border to keep migrants from crossing into the country. The government has also rejected and fought against Germany’s plan that requires all EU states to take [...]
Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican human rights activist, on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of Jamaica’s Offences Against the Person Act of 1864 , which criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between men, in the Supreme Court of Jamaica . The complaint alleges that sections 76, 77 and 79 of the law violate provisions of Jamaica’s Charter of Fundamental [...]
Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina was formally charged by prosecutors on Wednesday following the investigation into the corruption scandal that led to his resignation. Prosecutor Francisco Sandoval said that Pérez Molina is suspected of illicit association, customs fraud and bribery. Pérez Molina was jailed pending investigation in September following an indictment over corruption charges. [...]
A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a North Carolina law that permits magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six plaintiffs who seek to overturn North Carolina SB 2 , which permits public officials to recuse themselves from duties associated [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the use of racial preference in undergraduate university admissions. In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin the court must decide whether the University of Texas at Austin (UT) may continue considering race as part of its admission criteria. The US Court of Appeals for the [...]
