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4 Feb 2016, 5:24 am by David Kopel
In April 1919, the Nebraska legislature outlawed the use of any instructional language other than English, for students younger than 9th grade. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 5:05 am
 Many municipalities outlaw the excessive fortifying of property as it is often associated with gang or organized crime activity and may unduly intrude on the privacy of neighbours. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 2:44 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
DOCUMENT READER: A MURDER AT SEA – The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina, The New York Times. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 7:33 am by Charla Bizios Stevens
Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives via Flickr (CC by 2.0) SB 417, currently pending in the New Hampshire Senate, seeks to amend RSA 329 by adding a provision which would make it unlawful to prevent a physician from leaving one practice or hospital and setting up shop just a few miles away in competition with his or her former employer. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 8:04 pm by Diane Marie Amann
Alabama, which had outlawed sentences of life without parole for persons who were under eighteen when they committed the crime of conviction, applied retroactively. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 1:39 pm by Bill Otis
Josh Blackman at the Law School of the University of South Texas is more pessimistic than I about the prospects that the Supreme Court will outlaw the death penalty, but he does a brilliant job of describing the Court's potentially "abolition-by-slow-drip" jurisprudence:I freely admit that I find the 8th Amendment uninteresting. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 8:58 am by Scott Riddle
As an example, the Seventh Circuit has reasoned that the FDCPA outlaws “stale suits to collect consumer debts” as unfair because (1) “few unsophisticated consumers would be aware that a statute of limitations could be used to defend against lawsuits based on stale debts” and would therefore “unwittingly acquiesce to such lawsuits”; (2) “the passage of time … dulls the consumer’s memory of the circumstances and validity of the… [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 7:08 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is rejecting a Pennsylvania inmate’s appeal to consider banning the death penalty across the United States. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 8:43 am
The Koran—the sacred text of revelations received by Muhammad—did not mention chess by name, but did explicitly outlaw the use of both “images” and “lots. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 12:57 pm by Nathan Dorn
Ziletti’s book was republished in 1566 in an edition that was apparently prepared to satisfy the requirements of the Index librorum prohibitorum, specifically the Tridentine Index of 1564 which outlawed a number of works that appeared in the 1559 edition. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by Anne Kornhauser
It has also been invoked historically to outlaw political parties.The unending "war on terror" with its attendant fears about enemies within and without and the questions it has raised about nation-building has revived the concept of militant democracy not only among historians but also among legal academics, literary scholars, and political theorists. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 9:31 am by Emelina Perez
Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that neither boys nor girls can legally marry under the age of 18, even in unregistered, customary or religious unions. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 3:12 pm by David Kravets
(credit: .imelda) North Carolina's so-called ag-gag law is in the legal crosshairs. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 6:51 am by Joy Waltemath
No. 14-915), will offer their best arguments as to whether public-sector agency shop arrangements should be outlawed. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 12:48 pm by Danny O'Brien
Mandating backdoors or outlawing encryption can't stop anyone from using secure tools or working encryption. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 4:51 am by Robin Shea
Some racial segregationists, who didn’t like the idea of outlawing race discrimination, reportedly threw sex into the bill, hoping to defeat it. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Franke further illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women.Like same-sex couples today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure. [read post]