The National Mediation Board (NMB) on Monday issued a new labor rule that will make it easier for airline and railroad workers to unionize. Under the new rule, the union must only win a majority from votes cast, rather than a majority from all eligible voters. The new rule marks a departure from 76 years [...]
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court on Monday dismissed terrorism and other charges against Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party treasurer and deputy agriculture minister-nominee Roy Bennett . Bennett, a close ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ally and opponent of President Robert Mugabe , was acquitted after the presiding judge found insufficient evidence to convict . Bennett [...]
A Kuwaiti court on Monday acquitted eight men accused of planning to attack a US base 70 miles south of Kuwait city whom Kuwaiti authorities say have ties to al Qaeda. Defense lawyer Mohammad al-Kundari claims that the six men arrested were subjected to torture in prison and coerced into making false confessions. Two men [...]
US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court . If confirmed by the US Senate , Kagan would replace Justice John Paul Stevens when he retires at the end of the current term. Obama said that Kagan "is widely regarded as one of the nation's foremost legal [...]
Animesh Roul "Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks has been sentenced to death by the court yesterday, May 6. Kasab was found guilty earlier this week and convicted for mindless murder and waging war against the country. The most surprising aspect of the trial was the acquittal [...]
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Obama administration plans to ask Congress to enact legislation allowing interrogators to question terror suspects for a longer period of time than currently allowed before informing them of their constitutional rights to remain silent and be represented by an attorney. Holder's announcement came after many criticized [...]
The Constitutional Court of Comoros on Saturday overturned an extension of the president's term in office, holding that his mandate will end later this month. The court ruled that after the mandate ends on May 26 the president of the Muslim Indian Ocean nation will not be able to dissolve parliament or replace members of [...]
Two Chinese human rights lawyers who have represented Falun Gong defendants were permanently disbarred Friday after being accused of disrupting courtrooms. In a Beijing Municipal Judicial Bureau hearing last month, Liu Wei and Tang Jitian were accused of breaking laws by disputing court rulings as they defended a Falun Gong practitioner in Luzhou. The group [...]
Christina Abraham "In a feat of apologetic acrobatics, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision in Khatib v. County of Orange affirming a district court's dismissal of a complaint under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The decision uses faulty legal reasoning to arrive at a conclusion that dangerously undermines [...]
Germany's constitutional court Saturday refused to issue a temporary injunction against the German government's €22.4 billion ($28.5 billion) contribution to a bailout package for Greece, which has lately been gripped by a critical debt crisis . The suit, brought by four lawyers and a businessman, claimed that the contribution would violate Germany's constitutional law. The [...]
