Search Results for: 2015-01-28

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Monday that Texas and Louisiana are allowed to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs. The decision overturned a lower court ruling that prevented states from banning Medicaid coverage for Planned Parenthood patients. The case to disqualify Planned Parenthood was first brought in 2015 when [...]

On 22nd June 2020, the Indian High Court of the State of Karnataka while granting anticipatory bail to a person accused of rape, observed that it is “unbecoming of an Indian woman” to “fall asleep” after rape and that it is not the way “our women(Indian women) react” when they are “ravished”. The latter part [...]

“The masses have followed the magicians again and again…Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in clear awareness of what was at stake.” – Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952) On absolutely all matters of existential survival, individual or collective, candor is indispensable. In connection with [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist William D. Araiza of the Brooklyn Law School discusses the lawsuit filed by Paul Manafort against Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice... Paul Manafort's recent lawsuit challenging the legality of his indictment by Special Prosecutor Robert...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National Court on Wednesday jailed eight Catalan ministers by court order on charges...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order Thursday, blocking Texas officials from enforcing a ban...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that will lift an Obama-era directive that restricted local police agencies' access to military equipment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke Monday morning to the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Bradley Abramson of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses the new ABA Model Rules and potential first amendment concerns ... The new ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) prohibits attorneys from engaging in "harmful," "derogatory," or "demeaning" speech in any activity...

The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday suspended a government ban on cattle trading for the sole purpose of slaughter. In May Prime Minister Narendra Modi , a Hindu nationalist, decreed that cattle trade could only be...