Search Results for: 2013-12-18

The Northern Ireland Assembly rejected proposed amendments to the region's strict abortion laws on Wednesday. The Assembly voted against a proposed amendment to the Justice Bill that would allow terminations in cases of sexual crime,...

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that neither boys nor girls can legally marry under the age of 18, even in unregistered, customary or religious unions. Previously, the Marriage Act allowed girls to be married at the age of 18 and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Welch of LWC Policy Consulting, Inc. discusses legislation regulating tobacco packaging in the international context, and related health and safety issues... A recent Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) decision in Singapore represents a major setback for...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kendra Julian of Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2017, discusses the need for states to enact hate crime legislation...We don't like you. Get out. You don't belong. We're superior to you. These phrases all lead...

The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of two opposition leaders who were convicted of war crimes for their involvement in the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, second in...

The US Department of Education ruled on Monday that the Palatine Township School District 211 in Illinois violated federal law when it refused to provide gender-appropriate locker rooms for a transgender student. In December 2013 the American...

Following a landmark settlement allowing transgender inmates to receive sex-reassignment surgery , California prison officials on Tuesday announced the criteria inmates must meet to qualify for the surgery. Seeking to standardize the process, California prison officials...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday issued a temporary stay on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new Clean Water Rule (Rule) that defines "waters of the US." In a...

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by the US Department of Justice in the case of two former hedge fund traders whose insider trading convictions were overturned...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday refused to rehear Governor Rod Blagojevich's corruption case. In 2013 Blagojevich was found guilty on 18 charges of corruption in his second trial and ultimately sentenced...