Federal appeals court upholds San Francisco law on deceptive advertising from anti-abortion clinics
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a San Francisco ordinance on Tuesday that was implemented to halt deceptive advertising tactics employed by clinics opposed to abortion. The ordinance targeted ...
Pennsylvania top court rules land-lease profits must be used for conservation
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state government must act as the trustee for public natural resources under the Environmental Rights Amendment. The court ruled that royalties gathered from oil and gas leases on...
HRW condemns Ukraine corruption law it says targets journalists
Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned on Wednesday a new Ukrainian anti-corruption law that requires activists and journalists who report on government corruption to file public declarations of their personal assets. The law was...
JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the University of Tennessee College of Law Immigration Clinic discusses the immigration and constitutional questions surrounding Executive Order 13769 ...Since Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, titled "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry...
France published a decree on Thursday which, as of Friday, prohibits businesses from offering unlimited soft drinks. The decree, approved in 2015 by the French Parliament in an effort to reduce the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Angela B. Cornell of Cornell Law School discusses the implications that a recent case in Kentucky will have on labor relations and labor rights...Departing from decades of labor and industrial relations practice in the U.S. and rejecting...
Supreme Court blocks ruling ordering special elections in North Carolina
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a trial court's ruling ordering special elections in North Carolina. The court granted a stay of the order of the US District court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which...
Federal judge extends order blocking Texas fetal burial rule
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Wednesday extended a restraining order blocking new Texas regulations that would require the burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains...
Federal judges order North Carolina to redraw congressional districts, hold special election
Judges for the US District Court for the Middle District Court of North Carolina ruled Tuesday that North Carolina must redraw congressional districts by March 15, 2017, and hold special primary and general elections by next fall. The...
A German court says the trial of a former medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp must be postponed due to complaints. The Neubrandenburg state court has received numerous complaints that the judge and others...
