Military forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) committed human rights violations during last year's presidential elections, according to a report published Tuesday by the UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), consisting of the UN...
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Congo military guilty of human rights abuses during elections: UN
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Supreme Court rules on ineffective assistance of counsel claim
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Former ICJ judge on trial for Madagascar coup plot
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Sixth circuit upholds cigarette warning labels
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Madoff trustee reaches settlement with Mets owners
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Switzerland judge resigns from Cambodia genocide tribunal
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The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Tuesday in Martinez v. Ryan on a defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Luis Mariano Martinez was convicted on two sexual assault counts related to the alleged...
A Madagascar court on Monday began the trial of a former International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge accused of planning an attempted coup in the country. Raymond Ranjeva, who served as an ICJ judge from 1991 to...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday in Discount Tobacco City & Lottery v. USA that graphic cigarette label warnings are constitutional. The court decided unanimously...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Astrue v. Capato on whether a child who was conceived after the death of a biological parent, but who cannot inherit personal...
Over the past couple weeks, several people have asked why JURIST needs to raise funds. You can read all the details on these pages, but the most direct answer is that it all comes back to budget cuts....
Madoff trustee Irving Picard and the owners of the New York Mets on Monday reached a $162 million settlement for victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, avoiding a trial in the US District Court for...
Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic on Monday brought a libel suit against the head of a Serbian human rights group that accused him of failing to prevent war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during the war...
A Swiss judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) resigned on Monday over a dispute with a Cambodian ECCC judge. International Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet said that he...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in two capital cases. In Ryan v. Gonzales , the court will determine whether 18 USC § 3599(a)(2) , which provides that an indigent...
