The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that service advisors at car dealerships are excluded from federal overtime pay requirements. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that service advisors are exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provision, which does not require overtime pay “to any salesman, partsman, or mechanic [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in a dispute to determine whether a pole can be turned into a cross on public land in Michigan. More than 50 years ago, the “Dewey Hill Monument” was donated to Grand Haven, Michigan, as a memorial for those who served and died in [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court denial of qualified immunity in a civil rights suit involving a shooting by a University of Arizona Police officer. Hughes, who was shot four times in May 2010, sued Officer Andrew Kisela under 42 USC §1983 alleging Kisela used excessive force in violation of the [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Stokeling v. United States on Monday, where it will determine whether a state criminal offense requiring only a slight amount of force is categorically a “violent crime” under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) . The ACCA provides for enhanced sentencing guidelines to be imposed on criminal defendants [...]

The Vermont Senate on Friday voted 17-13 to approve legislation that will place restrictions on access to guns and gun-altering devices. Some of the measures include raising the purchase age for guns to 21 and bans magazines of more than 10 rounds for long guns and 15 rounds for pistols; ban on bump stocks; and [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must stand for trial for charges of corruption and influence the 2007 French presidential election. A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday denied Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit for involvement [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US State Department submitted a proposal to the Federal Register on Friday that would require nonimmigrant visa applicants to list their social media identities for the last five years. A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday rejected Exxon’s lawsuit claiming officials in New York and [...]

The DC District Court on Friday blocked policies implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) limiting the ability of undocumented, minor immigrants in HHS custody to access abortion services. The preliminary injunction prevents HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) from “interfering with or obstructing any class member’s access to … a judicial [...]

The US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Thursday granted summary judgment in favor of several groups of immigrants seeking asylum both in and out of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody. The ruling in the class-action lawsuit requires DHS to provide adequate notice of the one-year application deadline. The immigrant groups [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Poon, a China researcher at Amnesty International, discusses the tactics used by Chinese authorities to keep lawyers from changing the political and social environment… When Sui Muqing became a lawyer in 1993, he couldn’t imagine that 25 years later he would become a “post-lawyer” (lvshihou), a self-deprecating term often used by [...]