Federal judge upholds secrecy of documents released by Wikileaks
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the government is not required to release documents that are designated as secret, even though they have allegedly been made...
JURIST Guest Columnist Roy Gutterman of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University says that the Supreme Court's recent decision in FCC v. Fox still leaves broadcasters in doubt about what constitutes indecency...Curse words and nudity, even...
California senate approves bill banning sexual orientation therapy
The California Senate voted 23-13 Wednesday to approve a bill that would ban psychotherapies aimed at changing the sexual orientation of minors. According to supporters, the underlying reason for the legislation is that homosexuality is...
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says that the International Atomic Energy Agency and the West are over-estimating the positive results of their sanctions program against Iran and its nuclear program ...There is...
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Crane of the University of Michigan Law School says that unless the government can prove that the publishers actually agreed on e-book prices or a formula for price setting, the lawsuit will be more difficult because...
Nepal urged not to impose blanket amnesty for crimes committed during civil war
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Monday urged Nepal to reject blanket amnesty plans for international crimes committed during the country's civil war, which ended in 2006. A representative...
The Maryland State Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved a bill on Tuesday that would permit the legal marriage of same-sex couples within the state. This bill is a cross-filing of HB438 which was...
The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday passed a bill that would allow same-sex couples to legally marry within the state. The bill passed by a 72 to 67 vote and is set to...
South Carolina sues federal government over blocked voter ID law
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed suit Tuesday against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over its ruling that barred South Carolina from enforcing its voter identification law . The DOJ...
Same-Sex Marriage and International Law in the Ninth Circuit
JURIST Guest Columnist Nathan Crombie, Columbia Law School Class of 2012, is currently researching the influence of international human rights law on same-sex marriage. Here he argues that international law should influence the Ninth Circuit's ruling on same-sex marriage...The US...
