It explores the history of this prohibition, the current legal doctrine, and future applications of the Eighth Amendment. With contributions from the leading academics and experts on the Eighth ...

The Eighth Amendment which effectively banned abortion in the Republic of Ireland has been formally repealed. Irish President Michael D Higgins signed the abortion referendum bill into law on Tuesday.

Scalia’s Atkins dissent, moreover, doesn’t simply disagree with the Court’s past decisions. It lays out many examples of how the law would change — and how much easier it would be to subject even ...

The Eighth Amendment, which grants an equal right to ... where the result was announced The Save The 8th campaign described the result as a "tragedy of historic proportions".

GRAHAM Masterton's How To Drive Your Man Crazy in Bed was outlawed in Ireland in 1985 because it suggested that a young woman who had accidentally become pregnant might consider having an abortion ...

and welfare laws—a dubious holding premised on a fanciful interpretation of the Eighth Amendment. We are the first and only federal circuit to have divined such a strange and sweeping mandate ...

Following the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s investigation into Georgia’s state prisons, U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael ...