Search Results for: 1996-03-05

JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Somin of George Mason School of Law says the lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act are far from frivolous. They deserve to prevail and have a real chance of doing so... Twenty-eight states...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday issued a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a recent Ecuadorian court judgment against US oil company Chevron [corporate website; JURIST...

The second day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan began Tuesday with Kagan defending her decision to restrict military recruiter access to Harvard Law School while she was...

The Icelandic Althingi on Friday unanimously passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage . The legislation would end the system of registered partnerships that has been in place in Iceland since 1996,...

A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday introduced the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act , which would give presidents the authority to use a modified version of the line-item veto in order to cut spending. In a...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that the practice of segregating Roma minority primary school students in Croatia from other pupils is discriminatory. The...

Ninety members of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Signed by former president Bill Clinton [official...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that it was required to defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as long as "reasonable arguments can be made in support of constitutionality" despite the...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday rejected an immunity claim brought by war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic , citing irrelevance between a possible immunity...

The trial for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will start in late August and is likely to conclude in early 2012, according to a statement by the president of the International...