AP is reporting that the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Program has cleared UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing in the scandal, although it remained critical of his actions. The committee was looking into the...
AP is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that the Title IX gender equity law protects whistleblowers who claim discrimination by academic institutions.10:45 AM ET - In Jackson v. Birmingham Bd. of Ed., 02-1672, the Court extended whistleblower...
Iraqi lawmakers Tuesday failed to nominate a parliament speaker in a raucous second session of the country's National Assembly, as the role of Sunni Arabs in the new Iraq government remained a question. Assembly members had...
Fifty-nine former US diplomats have sent a letter to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Richard Lugar, calling on the Senate to reject the nomination of John Bolton for US ambassador to the United Nations [US Mission...
Ljubomir Borovcanin , the Bosnian Serb former police chief charged with complicity in genocide in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, will surrender to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , Bosnian media reported Tuesday....
UN member countries pledged Monday to contribute over $38 million dollars to finance a tribunal to try surviving Khmer Rouge leaders with war crimes. Pledges fell short of the $70 million requested by...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, March 29. The US Supreme Court hears oral argument in two cases today. At 10 AM ET, the Court will hear...
The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear Brown v . Sanders (docket 04-980), in which it will rule on the application of the "harmless error" doctrine to death penalty cases. The case concerns California's death penalty law, Cal....
Florida governor Jeb Bush said Sunday that he had no legal authority to do anything more for Terri Schiavo , the brain-damaged Florida woman now entering her 11th day without food or water at a...
Citing lack of jursidiction, the Florida Supreme Court has rejected what is likely to be the last appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents in their efforts to have their daughter's feeding tube re-inserted. The ruling effectively upholds Judge George Greer's...
