Legal Research

The Supreme Court and Foreign Sovereign Immunity
Today, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Samantar v. Yousef, a case involving whether a top official of Somalia was entitled to assert sovereign immunity for torture and abuse conducted by the government of Somalia on its citizens in the 1980s...

Supreme Court of VA Grants Writ in Sovereign Immunity Case
The Supreme Court of Virginia will revisit its sovereign immunity doctrine in the drowning case of a 16-year-old boy in a Lexington, VA park. Circuit Judge Michael Irvine found the City of Lexington was protected by sovereign immunity...

The purpose of habeas corpus
More from Boumediene: Indeed, common-law habeas corpus was, above all, an adaptable remedy. Its precise application and scope changed depending upon the circumstances. See 3 Blackstone *131 (describing habeas as ?the great and efficacious writ, in all manner of illegal confinement?); see also Schlup v...

Supreme Court criminal sentencing cases
The Supreme Court ruled per curiam last Monday that Federal courts could not issue writs of habeas corpus to state prisoners whose confinement does not violate federal law. "We have repeatedly held that 'federal habeas corpus relief does not lie for errors of state law,'" the Court said, citing its 1991 decision in Estelle v...

The Writ of Habeas Corpus, The Writ of Amparo, dan The Writ of Habeas Data
Saat mengikuti International Conference on Impunity and Press Freedom, saya dengar istilah baru The Writ of Amparo dan The Writ of Habeas Data. Ini semacam bentuk mekanisme lain dari The Writ of Habeas Corpus...

Family Medical Leave Act and the Doctrine of Eleventh Amendment Immunity
Family Medical Leave Act and the Doctrine of Eleventh Amendment ImmunityLambert v NYS Office of Mental Health, USDC, EDNY, Judge Gleeson, 97-CV-1347 Efforts by state employees to challenge alleged violations of federal civil rights and other laws have be rejected by federal courts under the doctrine of Eleventh Amendment Immunity...

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 2
Training, Healthcare, and Death Benefits

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Retired Steel Workers Win Pension Benefits Class Action for $51 Million
Retired Steel Workers Win Pension Benefits Class Action for $51 Million

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.

Immigrant SSI
US Federal Government agrees to extend benefits in class action settlement.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation