Legal News

Ghias on Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Shoaib A. Ghias (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) has posted Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Lawyers, Media, and the Struggle for Judicial Independence in Pakistan on SSRN...

Judicial Independence, Judicial Responsibility: A District Judges Perspective
To move forward in the discussion of judicial independence, we first need to address the increasing confusion of what the term really means.

Resisting Military Rule: Leaders of Pakistani Lawyers Movement Speak Out
In November 2007, President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in Pakistan. In the days following, reports emerged from Pakistan of police violence, arbitrary arrests, and mistreatment of lawyers detained for peacefully protesting government policies...

Media Coverage of the Constitutional Crisis in Pakistan, 2005-2007
Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published "Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Lawyers, Media, and the Struggle for Judicial Power in Pakistan, 2005-07...

Justice Breyer on Judicial Independence
My colleague Mark Murakami has posted a summary of a recent speech by US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on hawaiioceanlaw.com: So, what is judicial independence? He said that every judge knows what it means, some lawyers do, and,...

U.S. Lawyers Issue Report on Rule of Law in Pakistan
A delegation of lawyers and law students from the National Lawyers Guild recently returned from a factfinding mission in Pakistan hosted by the Rule of Law Project at the Lahore University of Management Sciences...

Age Discrimination
City of Independence awards two former employees a $65,000 age bias settlement.

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.

Wind and Hail Coverage
Allstate Corp. agrees to restore insurance coverage and pay $250,000 settlement.

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.