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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 December 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its suggested standards for (More) |
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DOJ petitions Supreme Court to block order requesting DACA materials
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to block an order from Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California , to produce additional documentation regarding suspension of (More) |
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Federal judge delays deportation of Indonesian Christians pending legal challenge
A federal judge in Boston ruled to delay efforts to deport 51 Indonesian Christians on Monday. The petitioners originally fled their home country to avoid religious prosecution and have been living in New Hampshire under an agreement with Immigratio (More) |
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Virginia immigrants file federal suit over DACA extension restrictions
Two immigrants in Virginia filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging the decision to end the D (More) |
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Appeals court denies Homeland Security petition to overturn lower court's DACA ruling
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) petition seeking to put a hold on a district court's order requiring the DHS to provide additional justification for ending the (More) |
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Federal Judge Dismisses RICO Lawsuit Against Greenpeace
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Jonathan Moore, adjunct faculty at City University of New York School of Law, discuss recent efforts to silence environmental groups through litigation (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 21 October 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado alleging violations of his constitutional rights. Ab (More) |
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Federal judge orders DACA materials be made public
US District Judge William Alsup in California on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to turn over emails, letters, memoranda, notes, media items, opinions and other materials directly or indirectly considered in the final agency decision to res (More) |
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The Hurricanes of September
JURIST Guest Columnists John Radsan of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Robert Delahunty of the University of St. Thomas School of Law discuss how President Trump can use the recent devastating hurricanes to make a national security argument to (More) |
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What's up, DACA? (Legally, at least...)
JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn C. Smith of the California Western School of Law discusses the legal issues surrounding DACA... In explaining why President Trump was rescinding his predecessor's DACA ("Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals") program (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.
