Legal Aid Services of Oregon, et al. v. Oregon Law Center, et al., Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, November 23, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

The Kenyan Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review unveiled the initial Harmonized Draft Constitution last week. The changes are intended to reduce the widespread injustice throughout the country, and specifically address issues that led to the violence following the 2007 presidential elections . Following the issuance of the draft, the Kenyan public has one month [...]

An Algerian criminal court acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainees Abdulli Feghoul and Terari Mohamed on Sunday, according to the Algerie Presse Service (APS) . Feghoul and Mohamed were repatriated to Algeria in August 2008 after being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for seven years. The Algerian state prosecutor had sought a 20-year sentence [...]

A lawyer who represented London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital in a suit against Kremlin officials alleging theft and fraud died in Matrosskaya Tishina Detention Center in Moscow last week. Hermitage CEO William Browder had hired Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to represent him from abroad after Browder was declared a national security threat and denied a [...]

A Chinese court sentenced human rights activist Huang Qi to three years in prison Monday on the charge of illegally holding state secrets. Huang was a critic of the Chinese government's handling of the 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan Province that killed about 90,000 people. After the quake, he posted articles online criticizing the government's [...]

London's Metropolitan Police Service (Met) and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Tuesday announced an end to litigation stemming from de Menezes' death, caused by two Met officers in 2005. No details were given about the compensation awarded to the family: n view of the physical and mental distress caused to the members [...]

The Afghan attorney general's office announced on Monday that two Afghan cabinet ministers are being questioned on corruption charges. The ministers are suspected of embezzlement and are among 15 government officials currently under investigation. The announcement came a week after President Hamid Karzai vowed in his inaugural address to fight governmental corruption. The identities of [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed five civil suits Friday against two Luzerne County, PA judges accused of taking kickbacks in exchange for sentencing juveniles to private detention facilities. Judge Richard Caputo ruled that Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were immune from civil suits for actions they [...]

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court has sentenced former vice president and reformer Mohammad Ali Abtahi to six years in jail for his role in the unrest that followed the disputed June 12 presidential elections , according to Iranian news agencies Saturday. Abtahi, who had been in custody since just after the election has been temporarily released [...]

Alexander Abdo : "Historically, the United States has championed the use of photographic evidence of human-rights abuses to advance the cause of justice. The reason is simple: Pictures have a unique ability to transform public debate. They convey in plain and unadulterated form what words cannot. It was the video of the Rodney King beating, [...]