Appeals court orders Kentucky clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday ordered Kimberly Davis, the Rowan County Clerk of Courts in Kentucky, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis is currently appealing...
El Salvador supreme court rules street gangs are terrorist groups
El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country's street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a...
"Religious Freedom" as a Shield and a Sword: Tensions Between Conflicting Rights
JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Marcus of Indiana Tech Law School discusses religious freedom in the US...In a recent battle between reproductive rights and religious freedom, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman rejected...
Equal Marriage, Tradition and Time: The Power of Public Deliberation
JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Iberoamerican University in the Dominican Republic, discusses the constitutional questions the US Supreme Court justices are facing when deciding same sex marriage cases ... The case for equal marriage is the case of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Lorence of Alliance Defending Freedom discusses the benefits of religious freedom to liberty protections ... Listening carefully to objections to state religious freedom laws, two assumptions emerge that are demonstratively false. Those who assert them...
A Tale of Two Liberties: Indiana's Religious Freedom Laws and Implications beyond Marriage Equality
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremiah A. Ho of the University of Massachusetts School of Law, discusses the amended Indiana "religious freedom" bills and marriage equality issues in the US... Despite a gaining momentum for extending marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide,...
Same-Sex Marriage, Heightened Scrutiny and the Problem of "Animus"
JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Berger, of the University of Nebraska College of Law, considers whether the US Supreme Court is ready to finally invalidate bans on same-sex marriages on the national scale and tries to predict what issues the US...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Margaret Penrose, of Texas A&M University School of Law, discusses the disarrayed nature of same-sex marriage law in the US today ... Molly Ivins, the renowned Texas satirist, once remarked, "The thing about democracy, beloveds, is...
The debate over the legalization of same-sex marriage was long one of the most polarizing issues facing the American legal community. Several major cases shaped the course of the debate over the past 40 years. Loving v. Virginia...
Federal judge says Flordia clerks have legal duty to issue same-sex marriage licenses
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled Thursday that Florida county clerks have a legal duty to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, while also noting that they are...
