Barry Steinhardt : "Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have a legitimate power to search for contraband goods crossing national borders. But searching laptops is not a search of goods. It is a search of a storehouse...
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Christopher Huther and Jeremy Keim : "On August 28, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion in Comcast Corporation v. FCC, which vacated the FCC's...
JURIST Special Guest Columnists Judith Sunderland and William Bourdon of Human Rights Watch say that the French government needs to ensure that all suspects in police custody have the right to see a lawyer immediately, have access to a lawyer...
Sahar Aziz : "A recent ruling by a federal district court signifies an encouraging shift for Muslim charities in the United States. For many such non-profits, mere investigation by the Department...
Prashant Bhushan : "The issue of asset disclosure of judges in India arose out of a Right to Information Application filed by one Subhash Agarwal with the Supreme Court seeking to know if judges...
John Wesley Hall, Jr. : "This fiscal year, through August 11, 2009, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tells us that there were about 1,000 laptop computer searches, only 46 of which were...
Anna Mandel, Boston College Law '11, writes about her experience at the Latvian Constitutional Court.... In the United States, state and federal courts are not bound by the precedents or laws of other jurisdictions. For example, the Supreme Court of...
George Joffé : "Despite all the fulmination, protest and anger, the return of Abdelbasset al-Maghrahi to Libya draws a definite line under what has proved to be a very worrisome case —...
Nema Milaninia : "The recent appointment of Ayatollah Sadegh Ardeshir Larijani as the new head of Iran's judiciary is unlikely to remedy the dire judicial and prison conditions prevailing in Iran and exacerbated by recent turmoil...
JURIST Guest Columnist Terry Turnipseed of Syracuse University College of Law says that the increasing frequency of adult adoption within same-sex partnerships as a means of ensuring the receipt of inheritances may have set in motion an irreversible legal freight...
