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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to rehear a case challenging a California law requiring police to conduct buccal mouth swabs to extract DNA samples from any...
Same-Sex Civil Marriage Gives Deference to Church of England Canon Laws
JURIST Guest Columnist Paul Johnson, Anniversary Reader of the University of York, says the British government's proposed allowance of same-sex civil marriages, but not religious marriages, shows deference and support for the Church of England's canon laws, despite the Church's...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mais Qandeel, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the tenth entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She...
Rwanda genocide tribunal upholds convictions of ex-military officer, businessman
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesdayaffirmed the convictions of ex-army officer Ephrem Setako and former businessman Yussuf Munyakazi on charges stemming from the 1994 Rwandan genocide...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday transferred the case of former Rwandan pastor Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi to the Republic of Rwanda to be tried in...
The US Supreme Court on Monday added 11 more cases to its 2011-2012 docket. In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. , the court will rule on whether...
The Colombian Senate passed a law on Wednesday to compensate citizens who have been victimized by ongoing civil turmoil. The Victims' Law and Land Restitution Law will provide financial compensation and restitution...
Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the Hot Shale Plays conference co-hosted by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and Energy and Mineral Law Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He writes about the Pittsburgh City Council's ban on Marcellus Shale drilling......
More than 9,000 workers who took part in the 9/11 rescue and cleanup efforts approved a negotiated settlement with the city of New York Friday in a lawsuit over their injuries. The parties relayed [settlement document;...
