A US military officer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the military from discharging him under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) . The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Idaho , seeks a temporary restraining order preventing the discharge of Lt.-Colonel Victor Fehrenbach, arguing that allowing the military [...]
Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Thursday filed a lawsuit against BP for damages to the state’s coast and economy, claiming that the oil giant has failed in its efforts to accept responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. King filed an additional lawsuit in the federal district court in [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday issued a report calling on the UK government to end the use of control orders issued against terrorism suspect. The UK Home Secretary uses control orders to impose a variety of legal restrictions on individuals suspected of terrorism-related activity, regardless of the suspect’s citizenship status or whether he or she [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Istrefi, Legal Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, says that it would be misguided to construe the ICJ’s recent advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence as the opening of the flood gates for all manner of secessionist movements… The absence of a unified policy of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday refused to issue a stay pending appeal on last week’s decision overturning Proposition 8, the California ban on same-sex marriage . Last week, Judge Vaughn Walker held that the ban violated the guarantees of due process and equal protection under [...]
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the Obama administration’s new offshore drilling moratorium , claiming it violates federal law. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas , argues that the moratorium was created in violation of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands [...]
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday unanimously dismissed a lawsuit challenging the exclusion of materials questioning the Armenian genocide from a school curriculum. The lawsuit was filed in 2005 by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) after the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education removed [...]
The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that it will conduct an investigation into the May flotilla incident , in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip . The investigatory commission will operate under the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will prepare a report to be presented [...]
A US military jury on Wednesday recommended a 14-year sentence for Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi . Al Qosi agreed to a plea deal Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism in July. The details of the plea agreement will remain sealed until he [...]
