Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Saturday signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency and ordering a curfew in the city of Ferguson. The order is an effort to protect the public peace within the city after protesters took to the streets to speak out against the shooting of Michael Brown. Michael Brown was [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday was indicted by a Travis County grand jury on two felony charges for abuse of power . The jury charged Perry with abusing his power to intimidate former District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to step down from her position. Lehmberg, a known Democrat, recently pleaded guilty to a drinking and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan H. Bitensky of Michigan State University College of Law discusses the error of the court’s holding that using child abuse to make children do their chores cannot be forced labor … Pity the poor children of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, for they have come within the crosshairs of the US [...]
The FBI, US Attorney General for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard G. Callahan and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Molly Moran on Friday released a statement announcing the next steps in the federal civil rights investigation into the recent killing of Michael Brown in Missouri. The team plans to continue [...]
Holders of Argentina’s euro-denominated bonds filed a notice of appeal Friday of a US District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling barring the country from making interest payments on the notes until first paying $1.5 billion to a group of hedge funds. Also on Friday the court granted an expedited appeal by [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist G. Alex Sinha of Human Rights Watch discusses US government surveillance and the attorney-client privilege American lawyers have been concerned for some time that the legally protected space for attorney-client communications is shrinking. But recent reports detailing massive electronic surveillance by the US government suggest truly confidential communications may largely be a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Ben Weinberger of Phoenix discusses the international protection of data in the cloud… In a recent proceeding before the US Court, Microsoft was ordered to turn-over email belonging to a user of its hosted mail service. That email belonged to a user outside the US. The email itself was located on a [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law makes the historical legal case for a change in US policy on Kurdistan … Having existed through millennia of foreign dominance and occupation, hard by the Zargos mountains, Kurds have a saying older than our country. “The Kurd has no friend but the mountain.” [...]
Prince William County clerk of court Michele McQuigg in Virginia filed an emergency stay application at the US Supreme Court seeking to block the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling declining to stay its decision declaring Virginia’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional. Citizens of Virginia voted to amend the Virginia [...]
The 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Miami on Wednesday ruled that Florida’s workers’ compensation law is unconstitutional. Prior to the ruling Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a response to the court’s order to show cause, asking the court to rule the law as unconstitutional in the form of an advisory opinion. In his [...]
