Jackson, et al v. District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, et al, US Supreme Court, March 2, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on same-sex marriage.

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in McDonald v. City of Chicago on whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses. The appeal challenges a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the [...]

Max Parmelee, Pitt Law '12, discusses the ways in which his views of racial profiling changed after attending a lecture by Pitt Law Professor David Harris and reflecting on the use of profiling by federal and local authorities… Earlier this year, Jordan Miles was walking through Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood when three plainclothes police officers approached [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Mac's Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. that a service station operator cannot recover for constructive termination under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (PMPA) when the operator continues to run the franchise with the same trademark, fuel, and premises. The US Court of Appeals [...]

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed Tuesday that attacks against Bosnian Muslims were "staged," denying any involvement in war crimes. Karadzic was appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for second consecutive day to continue opening statements in his trial for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. [...]

Barbara Coombs Lee : "The prosecutorial guidelines provide a bit of comfort and security for those citizens of the UK who would like to accompany a loved one to Switzerland if they chose to die at a clinic there. These family members embody the criteria making prosecution less likely – they are family, their role [...]

Spain's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that national police agents have arrested accused Montenegrin war criminal Veselin Vlahovic in southeastern Spain. Vlahovic, known as the "monster of Grbavica," is wanted on three international arrest warrants, including one for the rape, torture, and murder of more than 100 women and children during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war . [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick that a federal law requiring copyright holders to register their works before suing for copyright infringement does not remove federal court jurisdiction if the copyright holder failed to register. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had invalidated a lower court's [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 7-2 in Johnson v. United States that a "violent felony" requires the use of physical force. The court found that the Florida battery offense does not meet the physical force requirement of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) to be considered a violent felony for sentencing enhancement purposes. [...]

Turkish prosecutors have charged an army general and a state prosecutor with belonging to the Ergenekon network and plotting to uproot Turkey's ruling Justice Development Party (AKP) , according a Monday report by state news agency Anatolian . General Saldiray Berk and prosecutor Ilhan Cihaner were arrested last month in the eastern province of Erzincan [...]