Search Results for: 2005-03-14

Ontario lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved an amendment to the province's Human Rights Code that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. All three parties of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario approved Toby's Act...

A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay child support for a baby who survived a botched abortion , a court in Palma de Mallorca announced on Wednesday. In April 2010 the mother went to a clinic in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dora Rotar, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the seventh entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Rotar...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Szanyi, staff attorney at the Center for Children's Law and Policy, says that the Supreme Court should follow prior precedent and ban the sentence of life without parole for juvenile homicide offenders...This past month, the US...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Fields v. Smith , allowing a lower court decision that transgender hormone therapy is a medically necessary procedure to stand. The US Court...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week ruled that the right of a person in a same-sex partnership to adopt his or her partner's child is not protected by the European...

Brazilian prosecutors on Tuesday announced plans to charge a retired colonel for his actions during a military dictatorship that ended more than 25 years ago. The colonel, Sebastiao Curio Rodrigues...

JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law says Léon Mugesera may be the last significant incitement decision arising from the Rwandan genocide, and it could be the ideal capstone opportunity for Rwandan incitement...

A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Montana on Friday ruled that the state's medical marijuana law does not protect providers of the drug from federal prosecution. Judge...

Two former military officers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for committing crimes against humanity at an Argentine prison. The officers, along with five others, were charged and convicted of various crimes [La Nacion report,...