International Law

Beijing Olympics: Corporate Sponsors Risk Black Eye
The international NGO Human Rights Watch recently published a report on the upcoming Beijing Summer Olympics that states that the “corporate sponsors of the Olympics risk lasting damage to their brands if they do not live up to their professed standards of corporate social responsibility by speaking out about the deteriorating human rights situation in [...

Bush To Go to the Olympics: Tibet and Crackdown on Dissidents No Reason to Avoid Celebration
It is unclear whether it is a demonstration of his own disregard for human rights or the new power China holds on the world, but President George Bush has decided that he will go to the opening of the Olympics...

Tibet and the Beijing Olympics
Jon Katz gives us some thought provoking commentary on the Beijing Olympics, human rights in China, and surprisingly (but persuasively) argues against government boycotts of the Chinese festivities: Tibet is but one reason to consider not watching the Chinese Olympics.

Pelosi to Bush: It Is Essential That You Speak Out for Human Rights During Visit to China for the Olympics
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Bush, ahead of his trip to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, urging him to make human rights and freedom of the press in China top priorities of his visit...

Boycott the Olympics
Should political communities committed to what my friend Michael Perry calls "the morality of human rights" boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics in China? If not, why not? Some thoughts here.

EU President Advises Against Olympics Protests: Sports is too important for politics
The European Union wants athletes to resist raising human rights and other sensitive political issues during the Beijing Olympics.

Baseball Players Named in Mitchell Report
Major League Baseball Players using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

US Federal Government
allegedly violated the niversal Declaration of Human Rights by deporting undocumented parents of US born children.

Baltimore Strip Search Class Action
Judge Gives Go-ahead

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

FDA
Life-Threatening Complications Associated with Recombinant Human Bone Graft Products

Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans
Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans