The Death Penalty for Child Rape: Why Texas May Help Louisiana
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Gershowitz of South Texas College of Law says the principal beneficiary of a new Texas child rape death penalty law will likely be the State of Louisiana, which may see its child rape statute transformed from...
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D) introduced a bill Friday to legalize gay marriage in New York. In a press release, Spitzer said :Under current law, partners unable to enter into a civil marriage - and their...
Congressman proposes student privacy law change after Virginia Tech shootings
US Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) proposed legislation Wednesday that "will allow schools and universities to share a student's mental health information with their parents or guardians if the student is found to be at risk of suicide,...
French appeals court acquits one in landmark paedophilia case
A French appeals court Saturday acquitted one of 12 individuals who appealed their convictions in a 2005 child prostitution case, one of the biggest criminal trials in the country's history . Sixty-two men and women were...
Taylor war crimes witnesses to testify anonymously: prosecutor
Most witnesses who have been called to testify in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor will remain anonymous, and some may be forced to relocate to avoid retaliation by Taylor's supporters in...
Vetoed New Mexico HPV vaccine bill could have avoided litigation
Steve Komadina : "I think the bill was good in that it mandated the Health Dept. to develop educational material to send home to parents informing them about the vaccine and...
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) has proposed amending a bill requiring girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) , a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, to allow parents to opt...
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that creating an independent multi-ethnic state in Kosovo would almost certainly be a human rights disaster for the 200,000 Serbs living there... The United States is on the...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in two cases . US v. Williams (06-694) , on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official...
A federal judge on Thursday granted a permanent injunction against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) , a federal law that imposes civil and criminal penalties on website operators for making sexually explicit materials available...
