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Supreme Court rules against Vermont health care law
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company against a 2005 Vermont health care law that required health insurance providers to release data regarding the amount paid on medical claims, siding with Liberty Mu (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds ACA's contraceptive mandate
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act but enjoined the Secretary of Health and Human Services from the enforcing the mandate until the Supreme Court weighs in on s (More) |
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Burwell v. Hobby Lobby: The Dangers of Protecting First Amendment Rights of Corporations and the Rapid Expansion of "Corporate Personhood"
JURIST Guest Columnist Katharine Suominen of St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2016, is the eleventh author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Suominen discusses the dangers (More) |
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US House fails to override veto of health care repeal bill
The US House of Representatives failed Tuesday to garner enough votes to override the president's veto of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 , the most recent legislative effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act ( (More) |
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California court rules Catholic hospital not required to perform sterilization
A judge for the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco ruled Thursday that requiring a Catholic hospital to perform a tubal ligation sterilization would violate its religious freedom. The plaintiff, Rebecca Chamorro, requested (More) |
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Obama vetoes health care repeal bill
US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have repealed his signature health care law. The president explained that the proposed bill "would not only repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , but would reverse the signific (More) |
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Congress sends health care repeal bill to Obama
The US Congress on Wednesday sent a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to President Barrack Obama . The repeal bill is one of the first pieces of legislation against the ACA to reach Obama's desk in the past five years. The bill was pass (More) |
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A Common Bond: How The Community and Existing Regulations Can Solve America's Affordable Housing Shortage
JURIST Guest Columnist Azariah Jelks of Valparaiso University Law School of Class 2016 discusses the importance of coming together as a community in order to solve the problem of affordable housing in the US... With the price of housing steadily ris (More) |
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Supreme Court Granted Certiorari to Address Consolidated Affordable Care Cases
JURIST Guest Columnist Jessica L. Waters of American University discusses the implications of the Supreme Court granting certiorari to hear consolidated ACA cases... In early November the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in a group of (More) |
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Here We Go Again: Another ACA Legal Challenge of Questionable Merit
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Field of the Drexel University Kline School of Law discusses the controversy surrounding the latest challenges to the Affordable Care Act ...The barrage of lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows no sig (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
