Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday issued a judgment urging political parties to stop financing criminal groups responsible for increased violence in the city of Karachi. In the judicial decision, Chaudhry announced that militant groups have gained strength because of support from local political groups and ordered the Pakistani government to [...]
Bahrain on Wednesday announced retrials will be given to 20 medical staff convicted last month of participating in the country’s pro-democracy protests against the ruling regime. Dr. Ali al-Boainain, Bahrain’s attorney general, stated that the department of public prosecution had studied the judgment rendered against the 20 Shiite medics by the National Safety Court of [...]
Derrick Bell, a leading legal scholar and the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School , died Wednesday in New York of carcinoid cancer. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bell graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957, the only African-American in his class. He subsequently worked for the US [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday denied an emergency motion to issue a temporary injunction on those portions of Alabama’s recently passed immigration law that the same judge last week ruled did not meet the requirements for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs in the case this [...]
Human Rights Watch released a report on Thursday calling for the Ivory Coast government to prosecute both sides of the post-election violence equally. The violence began last November when Alassane Ouattara defeated incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo , but Gbagbo refused to cede power. The report alleges that pro-Gbagbo forces then began a “targeted campaign of [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC , the court considered whether an employment discrimination claim can be brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against a religiously affiliated school despite the Act’s “ministerial exception.” The exception allows religious organizations [...]
Tarren Bragdon, CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, argues that Florida’s drug testing policy is an effective policy, can serve as a model for other states and could save hundreds of millions of dollars nationally…
Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Law and Social Policy, argues that Florida’s drug testing policy for receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance is harmful to the people the policy is designed to help…
The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday rejected four amendments to the country’s Criminal Code . Parliamentary deputies refused to include in the agenda for discussion proposed amendments to the Code, which were introduced by the opposition party led by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , who is currently on trial and faces seven years in prison [...]
Head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) , Xavier de Marnhac, announced on Wednesday that an EU prosecutor will visit Albania to investigate allegations of an organ trafficking scheme that took place in the country during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War . The allegations stem from a report authored by Council [...]
