Search Results for: 2008-06-26

Sabrina Ramirez, Barry University School of Law

Walter Olson, Cato Institute

A group of international non-governmental organizations released a joint statement Friday urging world leaders to establish a global development framework that prioritizes human rights and normative justice over aid-based models after the expiration of the UN's eight...

Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School

Madoff trustee Irving Picard has asked a bankruptcy court to approve the release of between $2.5 and $3.5 billion in recovered assets so that it can be distributed to victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme....

JURIST Guest Columnist Angela Perone, Staff Attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argues that there has been a drastic change in public opinion in favor of same-sex marriage and that courts are more willing to recognize marriage equality...

JURIST Guest Columnist Robin West of the Georgetown University Law Center says that Chief Justice Roberts's conviction that the individual mandate is not authorized by the Commerce Clause is evidence of a new, anti-collectivist conception of individual rights that is...

JURIST Guest Columnist Edward White of the American Center for Law and Justice says that in upholding the ACA under the government's taxing power, the Supreme Court effectively rewrote the law and unduly exceeded its authority...The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision...

A lesbian couple filed suit in the US District Court for the Central District of California on Thursday seeking to achieve for gay and lesbian couples the same immigration rights afforded to heterosexual couples. Philippine immigrant Jane...

JURIST Guest Columnist Lynne Marie Kohm of Regent University School of Law says that the November 2012 elections will involve historic referendums in several states on legislation related to same-sex marriage...The legislative and democratic events surrounding marriage have been anything...