Search Results for: 2013-10-16

A judge for the Superior Court of Fulton County granted a temporary injunction on a law banning doctors from providing abortions for women pregnant beyond 20 weeks. The law in question was Georgia House Bill 954,...

The Tennessee Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the state's voter identification law Thursday while upholding the validity of Memphis public library cards as acceptable forms of voter ID. The state...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday argued that justice suffers from the weak relationship between the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the inconsistency of referrals. HRW urged the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Tony Quang MD, University of Washington School of Law Class of 2013, discusses the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act and proposes a mechanism through which to provide low-cost and expedient relief to those facing illness...On June...

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 Brynne Madway, The George Washington University Law School Class of 2013, offers insight on the Obama administration's public endorsement of gay marriage and examines the current state of LGBT initiatives...Earlier this month, North Carolina preacher Charles Worley...

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...

Fiji's military ruler, Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama announced Sunday that the nation's state of emergency laws will be lifted this week to facilitate a nationwide consultation process for a new constitution. The announcement was cautiously...

A Malaysian court ruled Monday that prosecutors have enough evidence to pursue a sodomy case against opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim . The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruling forces...

JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the blowout at BP's Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico will lead to a plethora of legal claims... The tragic blowout...