64.6 F
San Diego
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Home Tags Supreme Court

Tag: Supreme Court

Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the hearing of the government's "reasonableness" law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Sept. 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Supreme Court’s power waxing as judicial reform falters

0
The Israeli High Court’s marathon, 13.5-hour hearing on judicial reform two weeks ago underscored that the court has set its sights on Israel's Basic Laws, until now treated as inviolable by the court itself, observers told...
The Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, seat of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New Jersey Supreme Court: Religious schools have right to ‘teachers who follow their faith’

0
The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided on Monday in favor of a Roman Catholic elementary school, which fired an unmarried teacher who became pregnant, citing a violation of its employment agreement. Victoria Crisitello, an art teacher...
"Wall Street Journal" reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Source: Screenshot.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court frees men convicted of Daniel Pearl’s murder

0
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against the acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and ordered his...
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Source: Screenshot.

Pakistani Supreme Court rules Daniel Pearl’s murderer to stay in prison

0
The four men convicted—and freed and rearrested earlier this year—in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan will remain behind bars for another three months, ruled Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday. “The court...
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Source: Screenshot.

State Department: ‘There must be justice’ for slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl

0
The U.S. State Department called for “justice” one day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in...
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Source: Screenshot.

Pakistani Supreme Court paves way to free man convicted of Pearl’s murder

0
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, paving...
Minister Luiz Fux at a plenary session of the Federal Supreme Court, Nov. 20, 2012. Photo: José Cruz/Agência Brasil via Wikimedia Commons.

Brazil names first Jewish chief justice to its Supreme Court

0
Brazil on Sunday appointed Luiz Fux, 67, as the first Jewish justice minister—or chief justice—of the Supreme Federal Court. This is the second time Fux has made history in Brazil; in 2011, he became the...
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. Credit: ADL.

Whatever happened to the ADL?

0
When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative with no experience working in the...
The Supreme Court of the United States. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

American Jewish organizations weigh in on Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s travel ban

0
American Jewish groups expressed mixed reactions to the Supreme Court ruling over U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban. In a 5-4 vote that fell along the court’s political lines, the Supreme Court upheld Trump’s ban...
The Supreme Court of the United States. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Religious freedom for me, but not for thee?

0
There was a time when defending religious freedom was at the top of the Jewish agenda. Jews understood that as a religious minority, our rights could only be defended when those of other religious...