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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

“British soldiers protected under human rights law, supreme court told; Families challenging ruling that soldiers conducting operations outside their base are not covered by convention”: The Guardian (UK) has an article that begins, “British soldiers have the right, enshrined in European human rights law, to expect the government to take all reasonable steps to prevent them getting killed, the supreme court heard on Monday, in a case with profound implications for military commanders and their conduct of future operations.”

Posted at 8:34 AM by Howard Bashman



“Decades after early battles, attorney tracks new challenge to voting act”: This article appears today in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

Posted at 8:33 AM by Howard Bashman



“Famed attorney talks LGBT rights”: The Daily Athenaeum, the student newspaper of West Virginia University, has an article that begins, “Yesterday evening at the West Virginia University College of Law, famed Supreme Court Attorney Paul M. Smith spoke about his experiences with LGBT law in the United States.”

Posted at 8:27 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial merit selection is the wrong choice for Pennsylvania”: Dan Pero has this op-ed today in The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

And today in The Badger Herald, a student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aaron Loudenslager has an op-ed titled “Elections undermine judicial system.”

Posted at 8:09 AM by Howard Bashman