California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill issuing a statewide ban against single-use plastic bags. Beginning in July 2016 grocery and convenience stores across the state will be required to...
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A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday resentenced convicted terrorist Jose Padilla to 21 years in prison. Judge Marcia Cooke resentenced Padilla after the...
The California Legislature on Friday enacted a ban on the use of plastic grocery bags in the state. The bill , if signed into law, will become the first law of its kind...
Puerto Rico lawmakers approve gender, sexual orientation discrimination law
Puerto Rico's House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation in places of employment. According to media sources, the bill originally included protections for commercial transactions, housing, governmental...
Supreme Court declines to extend 2010 immigration ruling retroactively
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Chaidez v. United States that its holding in Padilla v. Kentucky does not apply retroactively. In Padilla, the court held that immigration...
The mother of US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla on Monday filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) for torture and unlawful detention....
Supreme Court hears arguments in Sixth, Fourth Amendment cases
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Thursday. In Chaidez v. United States the court heard arguments to determine if Padilla v. Kentucky applies retroactively...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in seven different cases dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees. The court's refusal to hear the cases preserves the decisions of the US Court of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the government's unwillingness to clearly define which activities would make someone a 'covered person' under section 1021 of the NDAA likely resulted in a US District Court...
US prosecutors ask judge to reverse ruling blocking anti-terrorism law
Federal prosecutors on Friday asked Judge Katherine Forrest of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to lift an injunction she placed earlier this month on sections of the National Defense...