Legal News

Ripper in legal bid for freedom
Ripper in legal bid for freedom"Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is aiming to win his freedom by claiming his human rights have been breached, a leading law firm has confirmed".I think that the BBC headline is misleading...

UN rights chief announces June resignation
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] said Friday that she will not seek a second term [press release; recorded video] when her commission ends on June 30...

UN rights chief stepping down in June: report
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] will not seek a second term when her commission ends on June 30, the Washington Post reported Monday citing anonymous sources...

The Ultimate True Crime Tale: Jack the Ripper
In May this year a major exhibition will open at the Museum in Docklands, London -- "Jack the Ripper and the East End." From the museum webpage about the exhibition:From police files and photographs to letters from the public and the supposed Ripper himself, examine, for the first time, surviving documents and artefacts from the investigation and follow the crimes as they unfolded...

China human rights lawyers denied license renewals
[JURIST] The Beijing Judicial Bureau [official backgrounder] has refused to renew the licenses of a number of Chinese human rights lawyers before a Saturday deadline, a China Human Rights Lawyers' Concern Group [advocacy website] official said Friday...

Louise Arbour: Welcome Home
Last month, former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour announced that she will not seek a second term in her current role as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her four year term comes to a close on June 30th of this year...

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.

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

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

YTB International
Sales Agents Seek Class Action

California Construction Workers
Seek Class Action Against BMHC