Search Results for: 2016-02-05

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday urged state court systems to stop using procedural routines and hefty fines to profit off poor defendants . DOJ officials Vanita Gupta and Lisa Foster informed ...

A court in Neubrandenburg, Germany, on Monday postponed the trial of a former Nazi SS medic because the 95-year-old remains unfit to appear before the court. The trial was scheduled to open on Monday, but the court announced a...

The Missouri State Senate passed on Thursday a proposal to amend the state constitution to provide broader religious protections for individuals and businesses opposed to gay marriage. In a 23-7 vote, lawmakers passed the...

The Delhi High Court granted bail Wednesday to student political leader Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested with other students on February 9 when he rallied against the execution of Kashmiri separatist Mohammed Afzal Guru. The arrests...

JURIST Guest Columnist Rogendy Toussaint of St. John&aposapos;s University School of Law Class of 2016, is the twelfth author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Toussaint discusses whether the disparate impact of...

A German court ruled Monday that 95-year-old former Nazi SS medic was not fit to attend court for criminal charges stemming from his time at Auschwitz. Hubert Z is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,681...

The Supreme Court of California on Friday ruled that Governor Jerry Brown can put his plan to ease prison over-crowding on the ballot this November, reversing a lower court's previous ruling. A court in Sacramento decided...

JURIST Guest Columnist John W. Klinker of Loyola University Chicago School of Law discusses how the decision in Montanile potentially creates a precedent that could affect the funding of welfare benefit plans... A common term in welfare benefit plans establishes...

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court decision , holding that accused Nazi war criminal Helmut Oberlander cannot be stripped of his Canadian citizenship at this time. Oberlander was an interpreter for Einsatzkommando 10a...

JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...