tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72579012009-07-13T17:37:39.358-04:00Bernard Hibbittsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1916125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-5104864618489610472009-07-13T15:59:00.004-04:002009-07-13T17:37:35.231-04:00

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua, International Court of Justice, July 13, 2009 [ruling that Nicaragua has interfered with Costa Rica's right of free navigation on the San Juan river]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the International Court of Justice.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-9880957796252372582009-07-10T15:36:00.002-04:002009-07-13T17:35:08.082-04:00

Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program, The Office of the Inspectors' General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Office of National Intelligence (ONI), July 10, 2009 [reporting that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program relied on a flawed

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-82934033222285971212009-07-08T22:25:00.002-04:002009-07-10T13:45:33.900-04:00

Projet de Loi relatif à la protection pénale de la propriété littéraire et artistique sur internet (Bill relating to the penal protection of literary and artistic property on the internet), French Senate, July 8, 2009 [granting discretion to suspend the internet access of those convicted of internet piracy to the courts, rather than to an administrative authority, thereby revising the text of the

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-31375637781073332702009-07-08T22:18:00.002-04:002009-07-10T13:43:52.409-04:00

Stormans, Inc., et al. v. Selecky, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 8, 2009 [upholding the state of Washington's mandates prohibiting patient discrimination and requiring that pharmacies deliver lawfully-prescribed, approved medications in the context of a dispute over Plan B ("morning after") contraceptives]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-854322469883620042009-07-08T18:51:00.002-04:002009-07-13T09:30:31.474-04:00

McCullen, et al. v. Coakley, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, July 8, 2009 [upholding a Massachusetts law which prohibits people from protesting directly outside of abortion clinics]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on abortion issues.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-26214137727065012112009-07-08T15:24:00.003-04:002009-07-08T20:15:24.392-04:00

Prosecutor v. Karadzic, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, July 8, 2009 [rejecting an immunity claim brought by war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, citing irrelevance between a possible immunity deal and his trial]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Radovan Karadzic.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-20535006736183837052009-07-07T15:32:00.006-04:002009-07-07T19:20:02.803-04:00

Prosecution Document in Support of Appeal against the “Decision on the Prosecution’s Application for a Warrant of Arrest against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir”, International Criminal Court prosecutors, July 7, 2009 [appealing the court's recent decision not to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-91331671868884476282009-07-07T15:31:00.001-04:002009-07-08T20:13:48.113-04:00

An Act... to amend An Act To establish a code of law for the District ofColumbia to provide that marriages legally entered into in another jurisdiction by 2 persons of the same sex shall be recognized in the District of Columbia, Council of the District of Columbia, July 7, 2009 [recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or jurisdictions]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-23125695803519870962009-07-06T15:18:00.003-04:002009-07-07T19:17:43.496-04:00

Pilgrim v. Luther, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, July 6, 2009 [affirming a lower court's holding that a prisoner's First Amendment rights are not violated if he is prohibited from writing material that encourages inmates to participate in work stoppages]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on First Amendment rights.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-75178947269825532862009-07-05T22:52:00.001-04:002009-07-07T19:14:05.869-04:00

In re: General Motors Corp. et al, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, July 5, 2009 [approving the sale of assets held by General Motors to a new, government-backed company]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the legal aspects of US automaker bankruptcies.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-25227680473850822652009-07-02T15:50:00.003-04:002009-07-06T20:31:51.901-04:00

Pleus v. Crist, Florida Supreme Court, July 2, 2009 [holding that Republican Governor Charlie Christ cannot delay a decision on filling a vacancy in Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal in order to consider more diverse candidates]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-88250099700299534592009-07-02T15:25:00.003-04:002009-07-06T19:55:37.975-04:00

Disegno Di Legge, Senato della Repubblica (Italian Senate), July 2, 2009 [making illegal immigration a crime]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Italian immigration law and policy.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-77792108614707528992009-07-02T03:21:00.003-04:002009-07-03T16:10:06.246-04:00

Naz Foundation v. Government of NCT of Delhi, et al., High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, July 2, 2009 [decriminalizing homosexual conduct by declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the legality of homosexual activity in various countries around the world.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-58220610082476529032009-07-02T03:11:00.001-04:002009-07-03T15:59:44.024-04:00

Radmacher v. Granatin, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, July 2, 2009 [recognizing a pre-nuptial agreement for the first time in the UK, where they have been generally disregarded by courts hearing divorce proceedings]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on pre-nuptial agreements.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-90800059675509883352009-06-30T16:49:00.005-04:002009-07-02T16:07:25.449-04:00

California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California’s 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles, Environmental Protection Agency, June 30, 2009 [granting permission to California to enforce its own greenhouse gas emissions standards]. Reported in JURIST's

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-38311678355624197142009-06-30T16:37:00.006-04:002009-07-02T16:10:46.408-04:00

Sheehan, et al. v. Franken, Minnesota Supreme Court, June 30, 2009 [declaring Democrat Al Franken the winner of Minnesota's 2008 US Senate race over incumbent opponent Norm Coleman]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on controversial senate races.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-80082751095259358672009-06-30T16:04:00.005-04:002009-07-02T16:13:48.662-04:00

Lisbon Treaty ruling, German Constitutional Court, June 30, 2009 [holding that the European Union reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty, is compatible with the German Basic Law, but requires parliamentary reforms before it can be ratified]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on issues surrounding the Lisbon Treaty.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-29738344301179249222009-06-30T15:14:00.003-04:002009-07-02T16:15:25.450-04:00

LJN: BG4822, Hoge Raad, 07/10742, Netherlands Supreme Court, June 30, 2009 [upholding the 2005 war crimes conviction of Frans Van Anraat, a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create chemical weapons]. Read the full text of the judgment here.Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/06/

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-71149288019503243022009-06-29T16:32:00.001-04:002009-07-02T16:17:37.836-04:00

Wazir, et al. v. Gates, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 29, 2009 [dismissing a habeas corpus challenge brought by an Afghan detainee who has been held at Bagram Air Base without having been charged since 2002 on the basis of their finding that Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 did not violate the separation of powers principle laid out by the US

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-29108168423616548362009-06-29T15:54:00.008-04:002009-07-02T16:46:20.351-04:00

Cuomo, Attorney General of New York v. Clearing House Associations, LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 29, 2009 [holding that the National Bank Act and 12 CFR § 7.4000 do not prevent a state from enforcing fair lending laws against national banks]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on preemption.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-82876248745168932512009-06-29T15:16:00.006-04:002009-07-02T16:50:05.224-04:00

Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano, et al., US Supreme Court, June 29, 2009 [overturning a lower court ruling dismissing racial discrimination challenges to the promotion criteria used by the fire department of New Haven, CT]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on employment discrimination issues.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-10891295575912560132009-06-28T15:33:00.002-04:002009-07-02T16:53:43.764-04:00

Civil Partnership Bill 2009, Ireland Department of Justice, June 28, 2009 [extending certain rights to same-sex couples, such as conveyance of home, but stopping short of granting full marital rights]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on same-sex partnerships.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-30871019425918495682009-06-25T22:55:00.007-04:002009-06-29T10:59:56.116-04:00

Safford Unified School District # 1, et al. v. Redding, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [ruling that a strip search of a school student violated her Fourth Amendment rights but that school officials who conducted the search are protected from liability via qualified immunity]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Fourth Amendment issues.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-52690775845343094252009-06-25T22:23:00.010-04:002009-06-29T11:01:12.475-04:00

Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that an injured seaman may recover punitive damages for the willful failure of his employer to pay a basic living allowance, wages that he otherwise would have earned, and benefits to cover medical expenses, known as "maintenance and cure"]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257901.post-46840569440515661012009-06-25T22:15:00.006-04:002009-06-26T07:12:22.592-04:00

Horne v. Flores, et al., US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in declining to modify an injunction requiring Arizona to provide sufficient funding for its English Language Learners program in order to comply with the Equal Education Opportunity Act of 1974]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0