An Oklahoma district judge issued an injunction Monday morning extending a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a new law that requires women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound and hear a description of the fetus. The Center for Reproductive Rights in New York sued to have the law declared unconstitutional in May. “Today’s ruling [...]
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court announced Monday that an agreement with the US, allowing Swiss bank UBS to disclose account information of clients suspected by the US government of tax evasion, is binding. The agreement, approved last month by the Swiss parliament, allows UBS to turn over information of 4,450 US clients to the US [...]
The former defense lawyer for Australian ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Sunday that his former client should be cleared of all links to terrorism because he never committed a crime. The lawyer, Steve Kenny, said he has been unable to find a law that Hicks had broken, either under Australian, Afghan or international law, [...]
Backlogs at US immigration courts are up by more than 30 percent in the past 18 months, according to a Syracuse University research center study . The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse study found that the 4,145 cases referred to federal prosecutors in March and April were the most in any two-month period since the Immigration [...]
The Russian Federation Council on Monday approved legislation that will allow the country’s secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to crimes that have not yet occurred. The KGB , predecessor to the FSB, had the authority to conduct similar preemptive questioning, which was often used to [...]
The American Bar Association (ABA) has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the US District Court for the District of Arizona to block enforcement of the state’s controversial new immigration law before it takes effect July 29. The brief, filed in support of the US government, follows the submission of another amicus curiae brief by [...]
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday issued a 90-day injunction against the enforcement of a law preventing the prosecution of 400 protesters arrested during the 2005 Gaza disengagement . The law, passed in January , prevents the prosecution or suspends the sentences of those who were arrested for protesting Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza [...]
Serkan Yolcu : “On Wednesday July 7, 2010, the Turkish media was unexpectedly informed by the press office of Constitutional Court that the Court made its eagerly anticipated judgment on the constitutional amendment package that has been on the agenda for months. After 9.5 hours of debate in only one day, the eleven members of [...]
Former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and 15 other high ranking former officials in the government of Saddam Hussein appeared in court over the weekend and were charged with crimes committed during Hussein’s regime. According to his lawyer, Aziz will now stand trial on charges of squandering public funds . Aziz’s lawyer contends that he [...]
The government of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced Monday that the two Guantanamo Bay detainees accepted by Germany earlier this month would be confined for at least a year while undergoing psychological treatment and integration training. The German government agreed to take the detainees after negotiations with the Obama administration. Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Karl [...]
