Elouise Cobell, who successfully led plaintiffs in the Indian trust class action lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior (DOI) , died from cancer Sunday at age 65. The resulting $3.4 billion settlement for mismanaged Indian land royalties was the largest settlement in US government history. Cobell, who was an accountant and a member [...]
Defense counsel for Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim rested its case on Monday in Anwar’s sodomy trial, for which a verdict is expected by the end of the year. The prosecutor plans to call four witnesses to refute testimony of one of the defense experts, an orthopedic surgeon, who testified [...]
Melanie Lazarus, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2012, is the author of the ninth article in a ten part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development under the direction of Professor Leonard Baynes. She writes on the need for New York to update the way it [...]
Sara Gronningsater, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2012, is the author of the eighth article in a ten part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development under the direction of Professor Leonard Baynes. She writes on the conflict between an employee’s right to nondiscrimination and an [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Morris Davis of Howard University School of Law says the recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaqi highlights the fact that the CIA drone program violates the law of war because it is a civilian institution, lacking combatant immunity…
The head of the European Commission (EC) Sunday announced plans to propose criminal sanctions for wrong-doers in the financial sector. In an interview-format article published over the weekend, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso stated that during the coming week he will propose to introduce into European law for the first time the recognition of individual [...]
The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on Saturday issued a decree banning discrimination on the basis of race, gender or religion. The SCAF article, Law Decree No. 125 / 2011, amended Criminal Law provisions first passed in 1937. The new article imposes heavy penalties , amounting to fines of up to EGP [...]
International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Saturday that the court will launch investigations specifically aimed at three to six individuals for their alleged involvement in post-election violence following last November’s elections in the Ivory Coast . Ocampo arrived in the country on Saturday after receiving permission from both ICC judges and Justice Minister [...]
Members of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group defended the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a filing on Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . In the filing, the three Republican members of the group, including House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) , responded to a motion [...]
A disabled Navy veteran filed a notice of appeal Thursday with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for denying her partner a share of her disability benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Carmen Cardona filed for veterans’ spousal benefits last year but was denied. The Department of Veterans Affairs reportedly told [...]
