Search Results for: 2014-03-20

A judge for the US District Court for the District Court of Columbia on Friday reversed  the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, finding the decision was arbitrary and capricious. The decision comes after a previous ruling gave DHS 90 days to provide adequate support [...]

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must stand for trial for charges of corruption and influence the 2007 French presidential election. A judge for the US...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US State Department submitted a proposal to the Federal Register on Friday that would require nonimmigrant visa applicants to list their social media identities...

Paul Manafort on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia requesting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment against him be struck due to the criminal charges...

JUIRST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law discusses the potential implications of Gina Haspel as CIA Director Designate....I. Ah, if the Obama Administration had only followed my advice! November 15, 2016, after teaching...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado alleging violations of his constitutional rights. Abdulmutallab,...

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado alleging violations of his constitutional rights. Abdulmutallab, who attempted to detonate an underwear bomb ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Sarah Silverhardt of St. John's University discusses the implications of continued ignorance of serial rapists on college campuses... Unlike your Sunday marathon of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, this heinous crime was real. Two Virginia students...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona signed an order on Thursday accepting major revisions to Arizona's death penalty procedures. The order provides such changes like eliminating paralytic drugs for lethal injections,...

A federal judge approved a settlement Tuesday between the family of Michael Brown and the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The settlement was approved by Judge E Richard Webber of the US District Court for the Eastern...