The Senegalese government announced on Friday that they will be deporting former Chad president Hissene Habre to Chad, where he is likely to be tried for war crimes . The Senegalese government had refused to extradite Habre, despite ongoing international pressure to prosecute him for crimes against humanity. The Senegalese Minister of Communication and Spokesperson [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday revived a lawsuit brought by 15 Indonesian citizens against the US corporation ExxonMobil Corp. alleging that its wholly-owned subsidiary hired security forces that committed numerous human rights abuses. The US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit in 2009. Plaintiffs [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Friday that it is filing a lawsuit challenging a controversial Alabama law that expands restrictions on undocumented immigrants. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama , seeks injunctive relief to stop the law’s enforcement and a declaration that the entire law [...]
The Honduran Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday released their final report on the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power, declaring the coup unconstitutional, but stating that Zelaya was culpable when he ignored orders of the Supreme Court . The Commission, while criticizing the coup, did note that there is no formal [...]
Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina (PPCNC) filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the enforcement of North Carolina’s budget that denies state and federal funds used to subsidize Planned Parenthood family planning services and teen sex education. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for Middle District of North Carolina to block the [...]
A Yemeni man pleaded guilty Thursday to acts of piracy for a hijacking of a US vessel that resulted in the deaths of four US citizens. Mounir Ali pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to being involved in the hijacking of a US yacht called Quest, in which [...]
Hillary Stemple, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, worked in the health care industry for five years prior to entering law school and is now in the Health Law Certificate program. She says that the individual mandate must be constitutional as a necessary and proper regulation of commercial activity due to the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the planned execution of Mexican national Humberto Leal Garcia . When Leal Garcia was arrested for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, he was denied consular access, as required by Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations . There was then a [...]
Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, and Trevor Burrus, Legal Associate, both of the Cato Institute, argue that the recent Sixth Circuit ruling upholding health care reform fails to recognize the unprecedented sweep of the individual mandate, running counter to a system of limited and enumerated federal powers…
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday for a measure to restrict funding for US military operations in Libya but voted down a measure to entirely defund it. In another contradictory message from the House on approval for operations in Libya, it narrowly defeated a bipartisan measure 199-229 sponsored by Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Justin [...]
