US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued an order late Friday quashing a subpoena that had been issued for Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla Martin in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news...
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International brief ~ Uganda rights body warns about lack of judicial, press freedom
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US Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed US District Judge and former Whitewater prosecutor John D. Bates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to replace US District Judge James Robertson ,...
The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will rehear oral arguments for death penalty case Kansas v. Marsh so that Justice Samuel Alito can break...
The Hong Kong Law Reform Commission (HKLRC) on Friday released its proposals to embed greater safeguards in the executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen [official...
Abortion rights activists in South Dakota on Friday announced that they will seek a referendum that will overturn the state's newly-enacted abortion ban . The campaign , led by the South Dakota...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that US authorities have arrested Faheem Mousa Salam, a government contractor performing translation for Titan Corporation in Iraq, on bribery charges in Washington, DC. Salam, a naturalized...
Leading Friday's international brief, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) in Uganda has issued a report warning that the independence of the judiciary and the freedom of the press have been seriously impinged upon in the...
Fresh talks between French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French trade union leaders over the new First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law ended in deadlock Friday with the government...
American officials denied a claim Friday that they planned to release 12 high-ranking prisoners from the US detention facility at Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport . Iraqi lawyer Badia Aref had said that US officials...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has said that he plans to replace the country's 25-year-old emergency laws with anti-terror legislation. The emergency laws, renewed every three years, are set to expire in May....
