Los Angeles homeless ordinance constitutionality ruling [9th Circuit]
Jones v. City of Los Angeles, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, April 14, 2009 [holding that a Los Angeles ordinance that subjects the homeless to arrest if they are caught "sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks"...
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that regardless of the ruling in the wake of the much-anticipated BlackBerry injunction hearing, critical questions remain about the patent litigation process that may yet require...
Singapore's national association of lawyers, the Law Society , is to conduct a review of the nation's death penalty laws and make recommendations to the national government in nine months. Singapore has one of the world's highest per capita...
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law says that new federal legislation immunizing gun makers from tort liability might protect them, but not the innocent people who are so often victims of gun...
In a move officials described as a first among western democracies, the British government Tuesday unveiled plans to outlaw the possession of "extreme pornographic material," described as graphic, sexually explicit material that "contains actual scenes or realistic depictions of...
DOJ defends decision to reduce proposed penalty in tobacco case
Federal prosecutors Thursday explained their controversial decision earlier this week to reduce a proposed racketeering penalty against major tobacco companies from $130 billion to $10 billion, saying that they were focusing on future smokers who might become...
US now seeking only fraction of original penalty in tobacco case
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice Tuesday asked for less than one-tenth of the expected penalty in a civil racketeering case against major tocacco companies. At the conclusion of closing arguments , government...
The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Ashcroft v. Raich (case summary from Duke Law School), a California case involving the use of marijuana as a legitimate medical treatment. The court is considering whether sick people in the...
