The U.S. Supreme Court has found that private gun owners have a constitutional right to keep handguns for private use in their own homes. The District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) passed legislation making it a crime to carry an unregistered gun and prohibiting the registration…
Certain things just cannot be litigated. This is what one individual in England has found out after trying to have a decision to ban him from a number of pubs in Buckinghamshire reviewed by a court. After an incident outside a pub in March 2008,…
Discrimination in the workplace was in focus this past summer at the European Court of Justice. The Court ruled that discrimination by association is unlawful and also held that a racist public statement can constitute direct discrimination. The landmark verdict in the case of Coleman…
In its quest to rid Europe of discrimination, the EU does not feel constrained by terrestrial borders. The skies have now been made handicap-friendly by EC Regulation 1107/2006: Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when Traveling by Air. The Regulation, which entered…
An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted to support the EU’s “Blue Card” scheme to attract highly-skilled immigrants. Modeled on the the US “Green Card” system, the Blue Card gets its name from the EU flag, which is blue with twelve yellow stars. This…
Were the Burden sisters victims of discrimination when they were denied the inheritance tax exemption available to married couples and civil partners? No, said the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in April 2008, the fact that cohabiting siblings do not qualify…
An assignee of legal title who has no beneficial interest in a claim, and has not suffered any actual injury traceable to the defendant’s conduct has standing to bring that claim in federal court, ruled the United States Supreme Court on June 23, 2008. In…