Judicial
Supreme Court Gun Ruling Likely to “Cost Women's Lives”
On Monday, June 28, in a 5-4 ruling expected to have wide-ranging implications, the U.S. Supreme Court put in jeopardy Chicago’s gun ban, likely stripping the city of its right and ability to protect its citizens from firearms. Family Violence Prevention Fund President Esta Soler expressed alarm that the decision will “result in more victims of abuse being injured and killed, and more of their children being victimized and traumatized. It is a dangerous, disappointing step backward that could cost women’s lives.” [...]
Supreme Court Decisions
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions will affect school policies that subject students to invasive searches, and how accused rapists and other violent offenders are prosecuted. In June, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the strip search of an Arizona middle-school student by school officials who thought she might be carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen. Two other U.S. Supreme Court rulings from recent weeks address defendants’ post-conviction rights to DNA testing and defendants’ rights to confrontation when crime laboratory reports are offered as evidence. [...]
National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence
Formed in 1998, the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence is a dynamic partnership among the US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The NJIDV has provided highly interactive, skills-based domestic violence workshops for judges and judicial officers nationwide since 1999. [...]
