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Virginia AG to ask Supreme Court for immediate review of health care ruling
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II announced Thursday that he will file a petition for certiorari before judgment with the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive], asking the court to hear an appeal in the case of Common (More) |
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Kansas AG requests to join health care lawsuit
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sent a letter on Wednesday to Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi requesting that Florida add Kansas as an additional party plaintiff to its lawsuit [complaint, PDF; JURIST news archive] challenging the con (More) |
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Republican senators file brief supporting health care reform challenge
Thirty-three Republican senators filed an amicus curiae brief on Thursday supporting state attorneys general in their legal effort [complaint, PDF; JURIST report] to have the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590 materials; JU (More) |
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DHHS limits abortion funding for new high-risk insurance pools
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has announced that insurance plans being offered as part of a new federally-funded program providing insurance to persons denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions will only cover abortion (More) |
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Virginia AG responds to motion to dismiss health care lawsuit
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli on Monday filed a response to the federal government's motion to dismiss [text, PDF; JURIST report] the state's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of recently passed health care legislat (More) |
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The Greatest Threat to Africans' Rights
JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that climate change will ravage the African continent if its leaders do not urgently assert their peoples' rights... Africa is the ric (More) |
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Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that although challenges to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are valuable for inspiring dialogue within and outside the le (More) |
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US officials violated rights of Katrina victims: report
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) released a report [text, PDF; press release ] Friday accusing the government of committing human rights violations against the victims of Hurricane Katrina . The group criticized the response of officials at the l (More) |
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Texas AG: 5 more states to join health care lawsuit
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that five additional states will join in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . The five states - Indiana, North Dako (More) |
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Obama signs health care amendments, student loan reform into law
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act , which represents a group of amendments to the recently approved health care legislation and also provides changes to the administration of the (More) |
Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.
