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The US Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday announced that it will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan until June 30, 2024. This status was previously set to expire on December 31, 2022. TPS is a protective status for [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Linda Tashbook of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the constitutionality of the Los Angeles law prohibiting the use of a vehicle for living quarters... Nothing offends constitutional sensibilities quite like a local ordinance that...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque on Friday applauded a new California law creating a right to safe drinking water. Assemblymember Mike...

An Arkansas judge on Monday ruled that part of the state's law governing executions is unconstitutional. The provision in state law allowing "any other chemical or chemicals" to be used for lethal injections violates the constitution's protection...

Germany urged the European Union (EU) on Friday to impose an export ban on a drug used for lethal injections in several US states. Germany's human rights commissioner, Markus Loening, requested that the drug...

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ordered a district court judge to reconsider the stay of execution in the case of Albert Brown. Brown was convicted...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the state of California can move forward with plans to execute a convicted rapist and murderer later this week. Albert Brown was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old...

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon on Thursday introduced legislation to strengthen prohibitions on bulk removal of Canada's fresh water outside the country. The Transboundary Waters Protection Act would strengthen existing regulations by...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the ethical dilemma posed by the continuing involvement of the medical profession in state executions should be...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger submitted a capital punishment proposal Tuesday in an effort to persuade US District Judge Jeremy Fogel to lift a moratorium on executions in the state. The proposal includes the...