JURIST Guest Columnist Dmytro Galagan, of VoxUkraine, discusses the ongoing natural gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia … On November 16, 2014, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine (Naftogaz) and OJSC Gazprom (Gazprom) informed that they had filed lawsuits against each other at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). Whereas Naftogaz seeks to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Walter Olson, of the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, discusses tribal rights and Indian burials and argues that Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has caused the effect opposite to what Congress actually intended … Does Congress really mean for the laws it passes to achieve the opposite of their [...]
A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on Friday ruled that New Jersey cannot partially lift a prohibition on sports betting, a move the state was taking to boost the struggling horse racing and casino industries. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) prohibits states from operating [...]
An Illinois judge on Friday ruled a law intended to fix the pension crisis in the state violates the Illinois constitution. Sangamon Country Circuit Judge John Belz ruled in favor of state employees and retirees who sued to block the law. Last December state lawmakers passed the bill , which amended the state’s pension plan [...]
Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court has ordered that Pakistan’s government amend or re-file its complaint against former president Pervez Musharraf for treason to include the former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, law minister Zahid Hamid and judge Abdul Hameed Dogar as co-defendants. In 2007 during Musharraf’s reign as president, he issued an emergency order suspending the constitution [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday criticized Gambia for its passage and enforcement of legislation criminalizing homosexual acts. In October Gambia President Yahya Jammeh signed into law a bill which imposes a sentence of life imprisonment for some homosexual acts. The bill amends the criminal code to define “aggravated [...]
The US House of Representatives filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Treasury on Friday for the departments’ alleged abuse of their executive powers through conduct promoting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) . The House claims that certain executive branch departments have violated and [...]
Seven same-sex couples submitted a petition on Thursday asking the US Supreme Court to review the district court’s decision to uphold Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban before it proceeds to the federal appeals court. The petition presents the court with the question of whether a state’s constitutional and statutory bans on same-sex marriage violate the due [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Thursday the transfer of five detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay . Three are being transferred to the country of Georgia, while Slovakia will accepted the transfer of two more detainees. In 2009 the Guantanamo Review Task Force, composed of six agencies, approved the transfers after [...]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday announced execution action on immigration that would allow 4.7 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the US. The reform allows immigrants that have been in the US for more than five years or have children who are citizens to register and pass a criminal background check in order to [...]
