The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) on Wednesday filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking to enjoin implementation of the recently passed state law that mandates drug testing for individuals seeking Temporary Cash Assistance (TAC). The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida on behalf of [...]
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A three-year probe into abuse of military detainees in Iraq was finalized Thursday with the release of a report that found numerous British soldiers were involved in specific episodes of abuse of Iraqi citizens. The independent inquiry was led by retired judge William Gage and focused on the detention of 10 Iraqis arrested at a [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report on Wednesday claiming that the US is diminishing its “core values” with regard to various counterterrorism measures put in place during the 10 years since the 9/11 attacks . To support this contention, the report cites to US policies regarding indefinite military detention for terrorism suspects, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Guy Goodwin-Gill of the University of Oxford Faculty of Law says that the Palestinian UN statehood bid presents a unique and critical question of legitimate representation on the international stage for Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and in the diaspora which must be resolved in order to ensure that statehood results [...]
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected as unfounded three constitutional complaints against German and European legal instruments and other measures in connection with both the European Monetary Union rescue package and the financial aid package for Greece. The high court ruled that by voting through national acts that implement the broader European measures, the [...]
John Knight, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, says that the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision affirming the need for hormone therapy for transgender inmates offers a new level of protection against political biases that would cause transgender inmates serious harm…
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the 2010 denial of petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan . Khan is an Afghan citizen who, at the time of his capture in mid-November 2002, lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and is accused of belonging [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose docket information of certain cases in which the DOJ used cell phone location data to track criminal suspects. The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in July 2008 under the [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday criticized Sri Lanka’s investigation into allegations of war crimes committed during its 26-year civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and urged the UN to conduct an independent investigation to ensure justice for the victims and their families. The report argues that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation [...]
Laura Frano, University of Pittsburgh Law School of Law Class of 2012, is a certified legal intern at the University of Pittsburgh Environmental Law Clinic. She writes on the growing popularity of natural gas as an energy source and the need to proactively implement international law and policy to regulate it… The history of environmental [...]
