The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on whether tribal courts can hear civil cases involving non-Indian businesses that have contractual agreements with the tribe. The case involves a sexual harassment claim brought in a tribal court by an Indian intern against the manager of a [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Walker-McGill v. Stuart , letting stand a decision blocking North Carolina’s abortion ultrasound requirement. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in December affirmed a lower court decision that the Woman’s Right to Know Act , which required physicians to display and describe ultrasound [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Kerry v. Din that the government’s denial of a man’s visa application did not violate his wife’s constitutional rights. Respondent Fauzia Din, an American citizen from Afghanistan, had sued the US government after her husband, Afghan citizen Kanishka Berashk, was denied a visa in 2009. The US [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday in Baker Botts v. ASARCO that law firms representing those undergoing bankruptcy proceedings cannot recoup fees incurred when defending the fees they originally charged their client. Under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules , lawyers and others providing services to bankruptcy debtors can receive fees for “actual, necessary services [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Mata v. Lynch that a federal appeals court has jurisdiction to review the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) rejection of an alien’s motion to reopen his or her case. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that it had no jurisdiction to review petitioner’s [...]
An international group of high-ranking military officials and diplomats has found that Israel met or exceeded international standards during its 2014 conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to a report from the group published by UN Watch on Friday. The High Level International Military Group traveled to Israel in May and met with [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Diana Ginn of Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, discusses the debate surrounding the freedom of religion held by private and public schools in Canada with regards to curriculum… In Loyola High School and John Zucci v. Attorney General of Quebec the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the issue of religious freedom [...]
A judge for South Africa’s high court on Sunday issued an order barring Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , who has an international warrant out for his arrest, from leaving the country. Bashir, who was visiting South Africa for an African Union summit, is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for human rights violations [...]
The US is hindering Poland’s investigation into a secret CIA prison there, a Polish prosecutor said Saturday. Piotr Kosmaty, spokesman for the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow that is doing the investigation, said that the US has ignored requests for documents relevant to the investigation. The Polish investigators were interested in a report by the [...]
Mexico’s Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional for Mexican states to ban same-sex marriages. The court’s June 3 ruling, made public this week, is considered a “jurisprudential thesis” and does not invalidate any state laws making it necessary for same-sex couples to seek individual redress from the courts. However, based on this ruling, all judges [...]
