The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions of the REAL ID Act removing jurisdiction from federal courts to hear such claims when they are late. Read more on JURIST.
Category: Laws
NZ: DNA collection expanded to help fight violent crime
New Zealand Justice Minister Simon Power issued the following press release: Police can now collect DNA at the same time they take fingerprints from people they intend to charge and match it against profiles from unsolved crimes, Justice Minister Simon Power said today. The Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Act allows police to take a…
Of Note: Text of ACTA leaked (updated)
Last week, in discussing the lack of transparency in the Obama administration, I referred to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and noted, “If ever the text of an agreement needed to be leaked, this is one of those times.” Coincidentally, Knowledge Ecology International now reports that they have obtained a copy of the August 25…
Another lawsuit challenges ObamaCare on privacy grounds
Back in April, I posted something about a l