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 [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Fredrick Vars, of the University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the new Alabama Gun Control Law and argues that the state’s gun regulations will be largely unaffected by the new constitutional amendment… Alabama voters, on November 4, overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment providing that: every citizen has a fundamental right [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana ruled Wednesday Montana’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the order US District Court Judge Brian Morris stated that Montana was the last state in the Ninth Circuit to prohibit same-sex [...]
