JURIST wins Webby People's Voice Award as best Law website of 2006
JURIST has won the Webby People's Voice Award as the best Law website of 2006. Called the "online Oscars" by TIME magazine and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences...
House Democrats launch legal challenge to budget bill signed with clerical error
A group of 11 Democrats from the US House of Representatives plan to file a lawsuit Friday against the Bush administration seeking to overturn the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 [PDF text; S 1932 bill...
Democrats question Bush on signing of budget bill with clerical error
US House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) said Thursday that they have sent a letter to President Bush asking if he knew when he signed the Deficit Reduction Act of...
Public Citizen v. Clerk, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, March 22, 2006 [challenging the constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, arguing that the bill signed by the President was passed by the US Senate,...
Constitutionality of US deficit reduction bill challenged on basis of clerical error
Consumer protection organization Public Citizen Tuesday filed suit in federal court in Washington, DC, challenging the constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 , which cuts approximately $39 billion in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the Bush Administration's proposed Line-Item Veto Act has only two problems: first, it proposes to create power the President pretty much already has, and second,...
President Bush announced Monday that he is sending new legislation to Congress that would give him "line-item" veto power over specific provisions in Congressional spending bills, allowing rejection of particular provisions without compromising entire legislative packages. Speaking at...
Asbestos compensation fund bill killed by Senate budget objection
US senators late Tuesday failed to overcome an objection effectively killing a bill designed to avoid costly asbestos litigation by creating a special fund to compensate asbestos victims . The objection, raised by Senator John Ensign (R-NV)...
Members of the US House and Senate have abandoned plans to split the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , dropping the proposal from the budget reconciliation bill. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner had introduced...
The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is backing an attempt by congressional Republicans to split up the largest federal appeals court in the US, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official...
