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Pennsylvania Supreme Court remands voter ID case to lower court
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Tuesday vacated the decision of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upholding the state's new voter identification law and remanded for further consideration. The...
Fifth Circuit upholds Louisiana abortion clinic restrictions
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday upheld Louisiana's Act 490, which allows the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) to revoke an abortion clinic's license immediately after a...
DC Circuit dismisses challenge to newest EPA restriction on nitrogen dioxide
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday dismissed petitions by the American Petroleum Institute that challenged recently enacted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations restricting the peak amount...
Federal appeals court rules for EPA on greenhouse gas emissions
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld the findings of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that heat-trapping pollutants such as carbon dioxide are endangering the...
The Supreme Court of Arkansas ruled on Friday that a state law passed in 2009 that gives the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) authority to administer lethal injection drugs of its choice during...
The US House of Representatives voted 248-168 Thursday to approve a controversial cybersecurity bill that would allow private companies and the federal government to exchange private security information, despite the threat of a presidential veto....
JURIST Guest Columnist William Maurer, an Executive Director for the Institute for Justice, says that when the government adopts a "sentence first, trial later" mentality and does not allow for judicial review of administrative action, it grievously violates the Due...
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the decision in Latif v. Obama construes the presumption of regularity in a way that creates an unfair obstacle for military detainees trying to question the evidence...
The Debt Ceiling Debate and the Constitution: A Call for Caution
JURIST Contributing Editor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law, joined by JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Duff of the University of Wyoming College of Law, Craig Jackson of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and...