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JURIST Guest Columnist Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, argues that the standard of review that the US Supreme Court ultimately uses in deciding US v. Windsor should not be perceived as the determinative element in that case’s eventual outcome…

JURIST Guest Columnist Linda D. Elrod of the Washburn University School of Law evaluates the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling that non-biological, same-sex parents can have parental rights….

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a law on Tuesday giving him the authority to select candidates for regional elections. Under the new law, Putin will have the ability to submit three candidates to legislature for approval for any of the country’s 83 regions. This structure can be used to circumvent direct elections. While Putin and [...]

Six European countries, including France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy, on Tuesday agreed on joint legal action against Google over its privacy policy . The countries claim that 13 months ago when Google merged 60 separate privacy policies, including email, video, social-networking and additional services, that Google failed to inform customers about [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday refused to approve Citigroup Inc.’s proposed $590 million settlement of a shareholder lawsuit, questioning the reasonableness of some details of the agreement. Judge Sidney Stein requested that Citigroup and its shareholders, the bank’s opponents in this case, revisit the [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Saturday that ReDigi Inc.’s “pre-owned” digital music sales infringed on Capitol Records LLC’s music copyrights. ReDigi’s online service allowed customers to use its platform to buy and sell “used” digital music originally purchased from Apple Inc.’s iTunes service. Judge Richard [...]

The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday voted 52-45 to override Governor Mike Beebe’s veto of a bill that requires voters to provide photo identification. Since the state senate voted March 27 to override the veto, the bill now becomes law under the requirements of Article VI of the Arkansas Constitution . The bill provides [...]

The court-appointed administrator responsible for determining and paying out damages to individuals affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill , on Monday asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to dismiss a lawsuit by British Petroleum (BP) over how damage claims are determined. Last month, BP appealed the court’s earlier [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in one new case on Monday. In Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas the court will consider whether its decision in Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. changed the standard for enforcement of clauses that designate an alternative federal forum, [...]