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Train Law Blog
Bogus Election of Remedies FRSA Defense Finally Laid to Rest
The long wait is over. The Administrative Review Board has officially laid the railroad's bogus "election of remedies" defense to rest. In Mercier v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the ARB…
International Law Prof Blog
ICC will Investigate Election Violence in Côte d’Ivoire
The International Criminal Court authorized its prosecutor to probe alleged abuses committed during the recent post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire – the seventh investigation in Africa and the first in…
International Law Prof Blog
Saudi women to have right to vote
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced in a recent speech before the Shura council that Saudi women will be permitted to vote and run for office for the first time…
International Law Prof Blog
Military Leader Who Overthrew Government of Fiji Speaks to UN General Assembly
The government of Fiji was overthrown in 2006 by a military coup. Since that time, the country has suffered from lack of basic freedoms and attacks on the judiciary, the…
International Law Prof Blog
Accord in Madagascar
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the accord in Madagascar that is aimed at settling the country’s prolonged political crisis and called for the deal’s implementation so that free and fair…
International Law Prof Blog
Calls for Belarus to Relase Political Prisoners
United Nations human rights officials today called on Belarus to immediately release all political opponents not involved in violence, voicing concern at a pattern of rights violations involving freedom of…
The Right Coast
Poison Ivy: Why Elizabeth Warren’s Day Job May Undo Her Senate Campaign | The New Republic
When Elizabeth Warren, the intellectual architect of the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), declares her candidacy for U.S. Senate on Wednesday, she ll already enjoy a national media…
The Right Coast
Democrats Fear New York, Nevada Losses – Jessica Taylor – NationalJournal.com
Democrats are facing the very real possibility that a pair of special elections on Tuesday will shake the foundations of the 2012 political landscape. The party is at serious risk…
The Right Coast
Perry: Obama s Worst Nightmare – Josh Kraushaar – NationalJournal.comTom Smith
Perry has proven throughout his long career that he s a canny political observer, and he picked up on the anti-Washington mood enveloping the country long before the smart set…
The Right Coast
Larry J. Sabato: The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States – WSJ.com
Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day. But behind the scenes, strategists for President Obama and his major…