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Pakistan's Hyperactive Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist L. Ali Khan of the Washburn University School of Law discusses troubling recent trends in the Pakistani Supreme Court... Judicial activism is a milder label to express what the Pakistan Supreme Court has done over the decades (More) |
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Ireland approves May/June referendum on abortion
Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Monday announced his Cabinet's approval to hold a referendum on abortion in late May or early June stating the exact date will become clear after a debate and vote in the Dáil and Seanad of the Oireachtas . Exp (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 20 January 2018
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in Trump v. Members of Congress introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit lawmakers from paying settlements in sexual harassment clai (More) |
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Supreme Court to review challenge to latest travel ban
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in Trump v. Hawaii , a challenge to the latest version of the so-called travel ban. The court agreed to consider the following questions presented by the government:1. Whether respondents' challen (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 13 January 2018
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Supreme Court added 12 cases to its docket on Friday, including two Texas redistricting cases. The court had previously blocked two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texa (More) |
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to approve third version of 'travel ban'
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court Friday to uphold the third version of the administration's travel ban . This petition comes just over a week after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against t (More) |
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Federal judge orders release or bond hearings for detained Iraq immigrants
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must release or conduct bond hearings for 1,444 detained Iraqi immigrants. In a followup to his July nationwide stay protecting the (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 30 December 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge on Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court on Friday ruled that those challenging the state's 2011 congressional map in League of Women Voters v. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit u (More) |
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Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against third travel ban
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump's third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated that under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the President must first "make a legally suffic (More) |
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The Clash of Gun Rights and Federalism
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law discusses policy and constitutional concerns about the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would expand the right to carry concealed guns outside one's ho (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.
