JURIST
MAY 27, 2022
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote that the ruling “ devalues the lives of [Bissonnette’s] victims” and called the opinion a “grave injustice that calls for action from Parliament.”
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 8, 2022
On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B 3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. Rights-based climate litigation has been increasing substantially in recent years.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Accordingly, the Court interpreted the FSIA as it does other statutes affecting international relations: to avoid, where possible, “producing friction in our relations with [other] nations and leading some to reciprocate by granting their courts permission to embroil the United States in expensive and difficult litigation.”
The Crime Report
JULY 6, 2022
Applying the regulatory approach used in the “free-world” has significant advantages over constitutional law in mitigating abusive conditions in prisons and jails, according to a paper published in the Yale Law Journal. Constitutional law does not fill the gap,” Littman writes. “[It
JonathanTurley
MARCH 9, 2021
It is a common pattern where universities will force students or academics to go to court and then later drop the cases when it is clear that they may lose. The Supreme Court has now said enough. Nominal damages are enough to allow citizens to litigate the loss of free speech rights.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 23, 2022
In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Two years after Heller, in McDonald v. This case concerned concealed-carry restrictions under N.Y.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
This already is being litigated in some lower courts. a school board is fighting the courts in its effort to fire teacher Byron “Tanner” Cross, who was suspended for speaking against gender policies in a public board meeting. Will misgendering in the United States be treated as actual hate speech or discriminatory speech?
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