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Commentary ATM Operators Need Early Injunction Against Unfair Rules
ATM Operators Need Early Injunction Against Unfair Rules
Don Resnikoff
November 25, 2016 02:50:13 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Don Resnikoff of Counsel to Rubin PLLC discusses the need for injunctive relief in the ATM anti-trust case ... JURIST previously reported that the US Supreme Court published an order stating that it would no longer hear...

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Commentary The Most Significant Gain from Cannabis Legalization: One Lawyer’s Perspective
The Most Significant Gain from Cannabis Legalization: One Lawyer’s Perspective
Jody Lehrer
November 22, 2016 11:32:23 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jody H. Lehrer, of Northeastern Institute of Cannabis , discusses the national movement towards the legalization of cannabis...With increasing frequency states are enacting laws, either through legislators or through voter initiatives, that are chipping away at...

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Commentary Criminalizing Visual Poverty&#8212the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime
Criminalizing Visual Poverty&#8212the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime
Sara Rankin
November 21, 2016 02:24:38 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Sara Rankin of Seattle University School of Law discusses the effects of criminalizing homelessness in the US...As a lawyer, I am particularly interested in how we take our impulses and fears and codify them into our laws...

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Commentary Putting the 2016 Capital Punishment Ballot Initiatives in Perspective
Putting the 2016 Capital Punishment Ballot Initiatives in Perspective
John H. Blume
November 17, 2016 01:47:12 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist John H. Blume of Cornell Law School discusses the current state of the death penalty in the United States...On November 8th, voters in three states endorsed "pro-death penalty" measures. In Nebraska, an initiative asking voters to reinstate...

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Commentary Abolition or Reform of Electoral College Unlikely
Abolition or Reform of Electoral College Unlikely
Professor William G. Ross | Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
November 15, 2016 03:41:19 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law discusses reform of the electoral college system...Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory over Donald J. Trump in the popular vote this presidential election has revived perennial proposals for the...

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Commentary Legal Double Standards: HRW and Amnesty on Settlements
Legal Double Standards: HRW and Amnesty on Settlements
Anne Herzberg
November 3, 2016 06:52:43 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor reviews the recent article, "Unsettled: A Global Study of Settlements in Occupied Territory"...Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention is the most cited legal provision invoked by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the UN...

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Commentary Thinking Beyond the ICJ's Marshall Islands Judgment
Thinking Beyond the ICJ's Marshall Islands Judgment
Mohit Gupta
November 2, 2016 06:24:18 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Mohit Gupta, an International Law Masters student at South Asian University discusses an October ICJ ruling against the Marshall Islands concerning India's failure to meet customary international law concerning halting developments of nuclear weapons ...On 5 October,...

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Commentary For Native Americans, Jim Crow is Alive & Well in the West
For Native Americans, Jim Crow is Alive & Well in the West
Tom Rodgers
November 2, 2016 05:44:15 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Tom Rodgers, a Washington, DC-based lawyer engaged in Native American economic and social empowerment advocacy, discusses the equal access challenges faced by Native American voters in the West in light of the resurgent voting rights movement in...

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Commentary Hiding Torture Beyond Borders: Australia and Offshore Asylum Processing
Hiding Torture Beyond Borders: Australia and Offshore Asylum Processing
Anna Talbot and Greg Barns
November 1, 2016 08:50:07 pm

JURIST Guest Columnists Anna Talbot and Greg Barns discuss the asylum seekers on Manus Island, establishing that there is no doubt under international law that the people being detained there are being tortured, and what legal tactics the government has...

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Commentary UNCITRAL Working Group II Draft Mechanism on Enforcement of Conciliation Settlement Agreements
UNCITRAL Working Group II Draft Mechanism on Enforcement of Conciliation Settlement Agreements
Robert Gyenes
October 26, 2016 07:56:45 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Gyenes discusses the UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Resolution) in Vienna, which aims to negotiate an international mediation treaty or law... The 65th meeting of the UN Commission on International Trade Law’s Working Group II recently...

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Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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