Understanding Lakey: Abortion Rights and the Right to Know
February 11, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may result in changes to Firs....... [more] 
Retroactive Application of Immigration Law is Impermissible
February 2, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnists Ira Kurzban and Christopher Rickerd of Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli & Pratt P.A. say that the US Supreme Court should not retroactively apply certain immigration laws when deciding Vartelas v. Holder because such a ruling would impose a new disability on the settled ex....... [more]
ACLU sues US government for information on targeted killings
February 1, 2012
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demanding the US government release information about their targeted killing program of US citizens abroad. The lawsuit comes in response to the three American citizens that have been k....... [more]
Montana filed water rights lawsuit against Wyoming in Supreme Court
February 1, 2012
On February 1, 2007, the state of Montana filed a lawsuit against the state of Wyoming in the US Supreme Court, claiming that Wyoming had violated the Yellowstone River Compact, which allocates water rights between the two states and North Dakota. In the lawsuit, Montana alleged that Wyoming had tak....... [more]
US released names of Bagram detainees
January 15, 2012
On January 15, 2010, the US Department of Defense (DOD) released the names of prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in September 2009. The list contained the names of 645 prisone....... [more]
DNS Filtering to Fight Internet Piracy Violates the First Amendment
January 13, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Mack, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2012, is the Copyright Chair for the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Society. She argues that two proposed pieces of legislation that seek to curb Internet piracy through the use of DNS filtering violate the First Amend....... [more]
Michigan domestic partner benefits ban challenged
January 6, 2012
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a challenge to Michigan's new law prohibiting public employers from providing medical or other fringe benefits to their employees' domestic partners. Governor Rick Snyder signed the legislation last month. The ACLU claims the law unlawfully....... [more]
Federal judge grants ACLU motion to dismiss Arizona medical marijuana challenge
January 5, 2012
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday granted an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Arizona's voter approved medical marijuana law, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. The challenge, filed by Governor Jan Brewer, argued....... [more]
Bush issued 19 pardons, commuted sentence
December 23, 2011
On December 23, 2008, US President George W. Bush issued 19 presidential pardons. Presidential pardons are granted under Article II, section 2 of the US Constitution and are reviewed by the US Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney. Most notably, Bush granted the second posthumous, pres....... [more]
Indonesia parliament approves eminent domain bill
December 18, 2011
The Indonesian parliament approved a bill on Friday that gives the government eminent domain powers to seize land from individuals without their consent, as long as compensation is provided. Proponents of the bill argue that it will allow the government to increase infrastructure, leading to improv....... [more]
Popular Vote Compact: A Missed Opportunity for Equality
December 15, 2011
JURIST Managing Editor Dwyer Arce, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is the 2011 Janavitz Fellow in First Amendment Law and serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. He argues that an interstate compact altering presidential elections mi....... [more]
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