The US Department of Justice on Monday urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse the injunction blocking the president’s immigration executive action. The government is challenging the preliminary injunction issued last month that placed a hold on the executive action that could spare millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. States [...]
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill Monday that requires abortion providers in the state to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion, and also bars women from buying any health care plan through the federal marketplace that includes coverage for abortions. “The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, [...]
The US Supreme Court ordered the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to review its decision that state lawmakers gerrymandered African-American voters into one congressional district. In October a three-judge panel of the district court ruled that the Virginia General Assembly must re-draw the lines of their districts because the current model [...]
A Tokyo district assembly became the first municipality in Japan to recognize same-sex partnerships on Tuesday. The measure, passed by Tokyo’s Shibuya ward , will become effective April 1, when Shibuya will begin issuing partnership papers that allow couples to rent apartments together and grant hospital visitation rights as family members. The certificates will recognize [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over how to apply the court’s 2002 decision Atkins v. Virginia , which decided that capital punishment for mentally handicapped individuals was considered cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. In Brumfield v. Cain the court will decide whether a state court’s decision to deny an [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) . The order lets stand a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to dismiss the lawsuit. The lawsuit, brought by two Arizona-based [...]
The Malaysian government on Monday proposed two laws that would reintroduce indefinite detention without trial and allow the seizure of passports of anyone suspected of supporting acts of terror. While the government hopes to curb Islamic militant activities, critics say the laws could restrict civil liberties . The Prevention of Terrorism Act bill, which provides [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Roxane Peyser of the Law Office of Roxane Peyser in Lyons, Colorado discusses the issues in question concerning challenges to Colorado’s legalization of marijuana… The requirement that a plaintiff have standing is derived from Article III of the Constitution, limiting federal courts to adjudicate actual cases and controversies. Since Association of Data [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane of Syracuse University College of Law discusses enforcing the laws of armed conflict in an age of extremes… Shortly after three planes went into three buildings on September 11, 2001 the chief law enforcement officer of the US, Attorney General Albert Gonzalez declared that the Geneva conventions were quite [...]
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman on Friday filed a brief urging the US Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit by Nebraska and Oklahoma challenging Colorado’s marijuana legalization law. Nebraska and Oklahoma argue that the legal sale of marijuana in Colorado has caused the piping of marijuana into the neighboring states where the substance is [...]
