Milosevic asks ICTY to speed ruling on request for medical treatment in Russia
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday again asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer his request for provisional release to travel to Russia for...
Retailers challenge laws forcing Wal-Mart, other chains to up health care expenditures
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has filed two federal lawsuits challenging laws in Maryland and Suffolk County, New York designed to push large retail stores such as Wal-Mart to spend...
Transparency International , an international corruption watchdog group, said Wednesday in its 2006 Global Corruption Report that malfeasance in both private and public sector health care systems around the world was rampant and...
JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says that the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law is a major step towards ensuring dignified choices to terminally ill Oregonians... On January 17, 2006,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political...
Illinois pharmacists objecting to morning-after pill sue Walgreens
Walgreens is being sued by four Illinois pharmacists who claim that they were illegally fired for refusing to sign a pledge promising to dispense the morning-after birth control pill. Walgreens asked the pharmacists to...
US appeals court lifts ban on Kansas underage sex reporting law
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Friday lifted a preliminary injunction by a lower federal court that had blocked a Kansas law requiring health care officials to report consensual sex by...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards, Director of the Program in Law, Science, and Public Health at the Louisiana State University Law Center, says that President Bush's bird flu plan raises a number of legal issues even apart from the question...
Government lawyers have defended US treatment of a suicidal Guantanamo Bay detainee in court papers filed this week, claiming that he is receiving appropriate mental health care and otherwise being treated humanely. Jumah Dossari [Amnesty International...
