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BP ordered to share partial liability with Transocean in oil spill claims

[JURIST] Judge Carl Barber of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] Thursday issued an order [text, PDF] that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] will be held liable for a portion of the damages owed by Transocean [corporate website] stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil... [full story]

US lawmakers request information on new Google privacy policy

[JURIST] US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) [official website; press release] and seven other lawmakers Thursday sent a letter [text, PDF] to Google CEO Larry Page [NYT backgrounder] containing 11 questions regarding consumer privacy rights as affected by Google's new privacy policies [corporate website]. The letter states that the privacy policy.... [more]
Second Circuit allows Ecuador court's $18 billion judgment against Chevron
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Minnesota high court upholds mandatory DNA samples from convicted criminals
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South Carolina appeals order blocking portions of immigration law
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Illinois high court to allow cameras in circuit courts
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Federal court rules Montana medical marijuana law does not shield providers from federal prosecution
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Minnesota appeals court remands same-sex marriage lawsuit
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Fourth Circuit upholds dismissal of Padilla unlawful detention suit
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Final marine tried in Haditha killings pleads guilty
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Guatemala court orders ex-dictator to stand trial
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Libya torture causing prisoner deaths: AI
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Chevron officials to face criminal charges in Brazil for oil spill: report
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Second Circuit allows Ecuador court's $18 billion judgment against Chevron
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Iraq to take legal action over Haditha killings
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UN rights chief concerned over Libya torture allegations
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Romania constitutional court rejects controversial election law
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Bosnia war crimes court upholds 31-year sentence for Srebrenica massacre
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Montenegro court sentences four former Yugoslav army Soldiers
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UN refuses to replace ECCC judge in Khmer Rouge trial
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Redefining Roe: Informed Consent and the Abortion Debate
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Mary Ziegler
Saint Louis University School of Law


Campaign Finance After Two Years of Citizens United
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Josh Douglas
University of Kentucky College of Law

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Guantanamo Bay1/22
Guantanamo Bay was leased to the US by Cuba on February 23, 1903, as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. Although the US had maintained a military presence at Guantanamo Bay since the Spanish-American War, the perpetual lease has allowed the US military to construct a ...." [more]

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Arizona legislature introduced bills challenging birthright citizenship

On January 27, 2011, the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate introduced bills challenging the right to US citizenship for the children of legal and illegal immigrants born in the state. By introducing revisions to Title 36, Chapter 3 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, the...." [more]
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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Threatens Activism1/23
JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss...A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation's ...." [more]
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Setting the Stage for Big Changes to Fourth Amendment Searches1/26
JURIST Guest Columnist Joshua Hausman, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is a Managing Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and is a Teaching Fellow in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. He discusses the Supreme Court's decision in United States ...." [more]
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Ministerial Exemption is Shrouded in Uncertainty1/21
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey Pasek of Cozen O'Connor says that despite the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, there is little guidance given on how to uniformly apply the ministerial exemption to varying circumstances...What are we to make ...." [more]
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