The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Judulang v. Holder that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) policy for deciding when resident aliens may apply to the Attorney General for relief from deportation under a now-repealed provision of the immigration laws is arbitrary and capricious. Joel Judulang, the son of immigrants from the Philippines, pleaded [...]

Delegates from 194 countries at the Durban UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa agreed on Sunday to negotiate global initiatives that would eventually force countries to take legally-binding action in order to slow the pace of climate change. After two weeks of debate, the delegates agreed on four major proposals. First, the countries decided [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari order list, PDF] Monday in Arizona v. United States to determine whether Arizona’s controversial immigration law is preempted by federal law. SB 1070 criminalizes illegal immigration and requires police officers to question an individual’s immigration status if the officer has a “reasonable suspicion” to believe an individual is in [...]

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was extradited from France to Panama Sunday to face charges of human rights violations for crimes allegedly committed during his 1981-1989 rule. He was already convicted on three counts of human rights violations in absentia, and each count carries a 20-year prison sentence. Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli and Panamanian authorities [...]

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday introduced a constitutional amendment that would exclude a corporation’s First Amendment rights to spend money on political campaigns. Named the Saving American Democracy Amendment the proposal would make clear that corporations are not afforded the same constitutional rights as people and that the political activities of corporations can be [...]

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced Friday that he would work with House Speaker Mike Hubbard and Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh to make Alabama’s new immigration law more effective. Bentley assured that the group had no plans to repeal the law, even with pending challenges from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . According [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist D. Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the recent interest of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the impact of video games on international humanitarian law is a chance for cooperation and education with the video game industry…

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the decision in Latif v. Obama construes the presumption of regularity in a way that creates an unfair obstacle for military detainees trying to question the evidence used to justify their detention…

A Ukrainian court on Thursday ordered the indefinite arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko despite the chance that her current seven-year sentence may still be overturned, drawing international criticism. Because Tymoshenko had already begun serving time on her original abuse-of-office charges when the court issued the order, the former prime minister was re-arrested in [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on three Texas redistricting plans. The emergency appeal challenges an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state legislature is currently being challenged in the US District Court for the District [...]