Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Court of Appeals for the Six Circuit affirmed the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection method on Thursday, just two weeks prior to a scheduled execution. The case...
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HRW: US authorities concealing information about how evidence was obtained
US authorities are deliberately concealing information about how they obtained evidence in criminal proceedings, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Tuesday. HRW divulged findings from over a year of investigating a police practice known as "parallel construction,"...
Why the Ferguson Consent Decree Matters for the First Amendment
JURIST Guest Columnist Jocelyn Simonson of Brooklyn Law School discusses the consent decree between Ferguson, Missouri, and the Department of Justice...Last week, the City of Ferguson, Missouri, entered into a consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) under...
Apple asks Congress to create expert panel on privacy issues
Apple Inc. on Monday asked the US government to create a panel of experts to discuss issues of security versus privacy , stemming from the emergence of a legal conflict between law enforcement and the company last...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed a bill into law on Wednesday that requires abortion clinics to have a physician with admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-mile radius present when an...
In the wake of 9/11, Bush declared a "War on Terror," sparking US anti-terrorism efforts in the Philippines, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Lebanon, Yemen, Pakistan, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On October 7, 2001, the first military action...
Europe rights court rejects Italy appeal on embryonic screening law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday refused to reconsider an August ruling that Italy's ban on screening embryos for diseases before they are implanted in a womb violates parents' rights. The...
Supreme Court denies challenge to funding of embryonic stem cell research
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Sherley v. Sebelius , which appealed a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST...
Federal judge approves DOJ settlement over Seattle police department
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday tentatively approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Seattle relating to a DOJ investigation...
Federal appeals court dismisses challenge to funding of embryonic stem cell research
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected an appeal of a lower court decision that dismissed a challenge to federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST news...