JURIST Guest Columnist Deborah Brake of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that important choices about our constitutional structure and the relationship between statutory and constitutional rights are at stake in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, one of the lesser noticed cases on this term's US Supreme Court docket… One of the lesser [...]

Judge Philip M. Pro of the US District Court for the District of Nevada issued an order Tuesday granting a plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and invalidating Nevada's so-called County Population Rule as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The order stems from a lawsuit filed by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) [...]

Vietnamese journalists Nguyen Van Hai of Tuoi Tre news agency and Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency have been charged with "abusing freedom and democracy" and will face up to seven years in prison if convicted at trial next month in the Hanoi People's Court, state media outlets reported Tuesday. The reporters were [...]

Absentee voting began Tuesday in Ohio after the Ohio Supreme Court and two federal district courts rejected Republican Party challenges to an Ohio secretary of state directive . By a 4-3 vote, the state Supreme Court on Monday upheld an interpretation of Ohio election statutes by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner allowing a one-week overlap [...]

The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) joined with Lawyers Without Borders and six other international legal organizations on Tuesday to call for the return of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr , in the latest attempt to return Khadr to his native Canada to face charges under Canadian law. In a statement made during a joint press conference [...]

Retired Quebec Justice John Gomery , the head of the now-concluded judicial inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal , told the Canadian Club of Montreal Monday that he played no role in Friday's move by the Canadian Conservative party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to appeal two Federal Court rulings on the scandal involving [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a San Francisco city ordinance passed in July 2006 that assists in the health care of nearly 73,000 uninsured workers and residents. The San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance requires all "covered employers" to pay up to a certain amount of medical care [...]

A group of news organizations filed a lawsuit in federal district court Monday to challenge the constitutionality of a Minnesota statute restricting access to polling places. The Associated Press and several television networks brought suit in US District Court for the District of Minnesota , alleging that the law violates their rights under the First [...]

London's High Court of Justice on Tuesday struck down an immigration policy that has prevented thousands of retired Nepalese members of the British Army from remaining in the UK. Earlier this month, five former members of the Brigade of Gurkhas and one Gurkha widow argued that they were precluded from settling within the UK by [...]

The Lebanese Parliament on Monday approved a new election law as part of a peace deal between pro- and anti-Syrian groups within the country. Many of the provisions included in the law, which guarantees candidates equal airtime and imposes a 24 hour ban on media coverage and a 10 day ban on political polling before [...]