Search Results for: 2008-10-31

On January 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, a dispute in which the creators of a documentary unfavorable to 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton challenged the prohibition on corporations making independent expenditures...

Italian prosecutors on Thursday called for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to face another trial on charges of bribing a senator. The prosecutors accuse Berlusconi of having paid former senator Sergio De...

Samar Warsi, Muslim Civil Liberties Union (MCLU)

Kent Roach, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

William G. Ross, Samford University, Cumberland School of Law

The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Wednesday acquitted two Serbian defendants of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Dragan Neskovic and Zoran Ilic were charged with...

Douglas Cox, City University of New York School of Law

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary L. Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, says that the Defense of Marriage Act does not serve a legitimate government purpose and must be struck down by the courts...By the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday issued an order granting Google permission to appeal the grant of class action status to numerous authors who are suing the company over its...

JURIST Guest Columnist Laura Kagel of the University of Georgia School of Law says that the case of Warren Lee Hill, Jr. highlights that when the justice system allows the option of taking a person's life, as in Georgia, it...