The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday delayed the trial of former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic , setting a new start date of May 14. The previous start date for the trial was March 27. The delay was ordered after Mladic’s defense lawyers argued they needed more [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday released a report accusing the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya of allowing the abuse and torture of supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi by unofficial militias. In the report, AI alleges that supporters of Gaddafi are being unlawfully detained, tortured and even killed by militias that the NTC [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that to understand the ongoing health care reform litigation, it is important to keep certain points in mind, and provides an in-depth preview to the issues to be argued, what they might mean and several resources to be aware of…
JURIST Columnist Vikram Amar, writing the inaugural edition of the column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that the Ninth Circuit could have ruled that the initiative proponents lacked standing to defend Proposition 8, which may have been a more judicially sound method to invalidate the amendment [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Petrany, Yale Law School Class of 2014, is on the staff of the Yale Journal on Regulation. He argues that the Obama administration’s new mandate on contraception coverage by employers violates religious freedom…
An indictment against General Ilker Basbug was accepted by the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court on Wednesday, after Basbug’s request to have his case heard by the Supreme State Council, a faction of Turkey’s Constitutional Court , was denied. The request was denied because the charges faced by the general are related to terrorism, and [...]
Amnesty International (AI) released a statement Tuesday condemning recent anti-gay actions by the government of Uganda . The statement came in response to a number of adverse actions against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists in the nation. Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo shut down an LGBT workshop on Tuesday by advocacy [...]
The US District Court for District of Colorado ruled on Monday that tribal sovereign immunity applies to online money-lending sites. The court ruled that the defendants, members of several Native American tribes, did not waive all sovereign immunity claims when their online business consented to private suit and could not be held in contempt of [...]
Mullah Krekar, the founder of the Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group Ansar Al Islam , pleaded not guilty before a Norwegian district court on Wednesday to charges of condoning suicide bombings and making death threats against politicians. The prosecutor in the case, Marit Bakkevig, declared that Krekar, who has been living in Norway since 1991, broke [...]
A military judge on Tuesday denied the request of suspected USS Cole bomber and Guantanamo inmate Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to question Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a witness in his case. The judge, US Army Colonel James Pohl, did not give a rationale for his ruling , saying only that he would explain his [...]
