Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Gabi Ashkenazi on Wednesday ordered the military to seek advice from legal advisers during battle, rather than just in the planning stages. Ashkenazi reportedly implemented the new regulations in spite of opposition from several commanders. The decision follows widespread criticism of last year's Operation Cast Lead [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that $21.2 million in gold coins and bullion seized last year from the offices of Allen Stanford be returned to investors. Stanford is accused of defrauding investors out of $7 billion. Judge David Godbey of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the gold [...]
Rhode Island lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow domestic partners , including those in same-sex relationships, to claim the body of their partner and to make funeral arrangements, overriding a veto by Governor Don Carcieri . The legislation passed by a vote of 67-3 in the House and 31-3 in the Senate , receiving support [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Tuesday upheld the majority of restrictions on cigarette advertising imposed by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act . The upheld limitations include a ban on distributing clothing and goods with logos or brand names affixed, as well as sponsorship [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Washington law that prohibits felons from voting violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . The Washington law, Article VI, Section 3 of the state constitution , states that, "All persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights [...]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to improve airline passenger security, calling last month's attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 "a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence." Obama said that the US government had sufficient information to uncover the plot, but that "our intelligence community failed to connect those dots." According to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that in the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a US airliner bound for Detroit, we must recognize that religious extremism poses an immediate danger and that religious extremists no longer deserve immunity predicated on faith….. Umar Farouk [...]
A White House spokesperson said Tuesday that the US government will suspend transfers of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen . White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the announcement at his daily briefing amid increasing political pressure not to transfer any more detainees to Yemen after it was revealed that the man who attempted to [...]
Israeli officials said Tuesday that a military delegation had canceled a trip to the UK over fears that they would be arrested on war crimes charges for their involvement in last year's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon met Tuesday in Jerusalem with UK Attorney General [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the president has broad authority to detain suspected terrorists, finding that the detention of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Ghaleb Nassar Al-Bihani is authorized under domestic law. In its first Guantanamo habeas ruling since the US Supreme Court decided Boumediene v. Bush [...]
