Federal prosecutors on Friday asked Judge Katherine Forrest of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to lift an injunction she placed earlier this month on sections of the National Defense Authorization Act that allow for the indefinite military detention of suspected terrorists. Forrest agreed with a group of reporters who [...]
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Friday signed a bill into law that prohibits state courts, tribunals and agencies from basing any decisions “in whole or in part” on foreign or religious law. The law also prohibits enforcement of any contract made between two parties that is grounded in foreign or religious law and fails to [...]
A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay child support for a baby who survived a botched abortion , a court in Palma de Mallorca announced on Wednesday. In April 2010 the mother went to a clinic in Palma de Mallorca and underwent an abortion procedure. Two weeks later the same physician performed a review [...]
Two female soldiers filed suit Wednesday against the US Army and the Department of Defense to end a policy which bars women from combat units and related posts. The women claim the policy has limited the potential of both women’s careers and that the ban is a violation of both the Fifth Amendment and the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday that an employee with a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not need to show that his or her disability was the sole reason he or she was fired, only that the disability was a “but-for” cause of the termination. This [...]
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Dr. Augustine Mahiga told the press on Friday that the Elders of Somalia will select delegates for the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) by June 20, which will convene on July 2 to approve Somalia’s new constitution . The NCA will have until July 10 to adopt the constitution, and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law says that a recent district court decision requiring the FDA to begin proceedings to ban the agricultural use of certain antibiotics may be a welcome opportunity to reexamine the regulatory response to the risk of antibiotic resistance …
Moshe Harel was arrested in connection with the organ trafficking operation in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) said Friday. A report authored by Council of Europe (COE) member Dick Marty details how criminals harvested the organs of civilian detainees killed on Albanian territory near [...]
US resident Dejan Radojkovic was deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday in order to face charges related to his actions as a police commander in Srebrenica during the Bosnian Civil War in 1995. Radojkovic is accused of rounding up more than 200 Bonian-Muslims who were then taken to another area where they were [...]
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court ruled on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part in the killing of 1,000 Muslim men during the 1995 Srebenica massacre . Jevic and Djuric oversaw the transportation [...]
