Shannon McKeown-Gilmore is a BCL candidate at the University of Oxford and a JURIST Assistant Editor. She grew up in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill made history last weekend after she was appointed Northern Ireland’s first-ever nationalist first minister. The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Emma Little-Pengelly has been nominated as the deputy first minister. [...]
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The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agreed Tuesday to the UK government’s deal regarding the restoration of Stormont power-sharing in Northern Ireland and the operation of the Windsor Framework. DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson announced the decision on X (formerly Twitter), stating the government will “publish new measures that are designed to restore Northern Ireland’s place [...]
Federal appeals court upholds Pittsburgh abortion clinic 'buffer zones'
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Court on Friday unanimously ruled that a Pittsburgh ordinance that creates a 15-foot “buffer zone” outside of any hospital entrance where demonstrations may not take place is constitutional. The case was brought by Nikki Bruni, a local leader of Forty Days for Life, a religious anti-abortion [...]
House Judiciary Committee issues subpoena for former Trump aides
The US House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday issued two subpoenas for the testimony of former Donald Trump aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson. This comes hours after former White House Counsel Donald McGahn did not show up to testify at Trump’s request. McGahn is a key witness in the obstruction charges against Trump; he was allegedly [...]
House Judiciary Committee votes to issue subpoenas related to Mueller report
The US House Judiciary Committee voted 24-17 along party lines Wednesday to issue subpoenas related to the Mueller Report and President Donald Trump’s inner circle. The amendment authorizes Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to subpoena both documents and testimony. The amendment first authorizes subpoenas for documents and testimony related to: 1. Final report authored by [...]
Do Intellectual Property Rights Extend to Graffiti Art?: The 5Pointz Case
JURIST Guest Columnist Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile of University of Arkansas School of Law discusses intellectual property rights of graffiti artists given the changing dynamics in the legal landscape and concepts of nontraditional art... Introduction It was known as 5Pointz but...
The Case of Donaldson, et al. v the State of Montana Is Not Over
Jon Ellingson, American Civil Liberties Union of Montana
The Montana Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking legal status for same-sex relationships. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) originally filed suit in July...
Redefining Persecution in the US: The End of Conversion Therapy?
JURIST Guest Columnist Gabriel Rodriguez-Rico, American University Washington College of Law Class of 2012, discusses the ramifications of conversion therapy on LGBT youth and examines the recent passage of legislation banning the practice in California...On September 29, California became the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Shannon Gilreath of Wake Forest University School of Law says that the current litigation strategy seeking marriage rights for same-sex couples only tinkers around the edges of heteronormative institutions when it should be seeking separate institutions that...