Elizabeth Hill : "Arizona is beginning to embrace the electronic world in which we conduct our public business. On October 29, 2009, in Lake v. City of Phoenix , the Arizona Supreme Court held that "when a public entity maintains a public record in an electronic format, the electronic version of the record, including any [...]

The US House of Representatives late Saturday passed landmark legislation designed to reform the US health care system. The bill, entitled the Affordable Health Care for America Act, passed by a narrow vote of 220-215 , with only one Republican, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-LA) , voting with the majority. The legislation has an estimated [...]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that Italy is not bound by last week's European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) ruling that displaying crucifixes in a public school classroom violates the European Convention on Human Rights . Berlusconi's remarks were made on the same day that the Council of Ministers gave its approval to [...]

Federal authorities have filed charges against 14 people in connection with insider trading at the hedge fund company Galleon Group , weeks after the arrest of the company's founder. An investigation by the FBI allegedly revealed more than $20 million in illegal profits and led to criminal charges against hedge fund managers, analysts, and lawyers [...]

The Constitutional Court of Taiwan ruled Friday that a law penalizing prostitutes and not their clients is unconstitutional because it undermines equality under the country's constitution . The Social Order and Maintenance Act will have to be amended to meet constitutional fairness requirements, but will remain in effect two years from the date of the [...]

Iranian officials covered up the sexual assault of detainees held after the disputed June 12 presidential election , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. HRW documented the rape and sexual assault of three protesters at the hands of Iranian security personnel, including one case which was accompanied by a medical examiner's report. HRW claims that [...]

HR 3962: To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reducethe growth in health care spending, and for other purposes, US House of Representatives, passed by the House Nov. 7, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on US health care reform.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Friday that it has assigned three judges to the situation involving the violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections . The decision came in response to a Thursday letter from chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in which he said that he intends to request formal authorization in [...]

The US should reform its detention policy at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in order to combat counterinsurgency, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights First (HRF) . HRF called on the governments of the US and Afghanistan to reach an agreement that "set forth grounds and procedures for detention in accordance with [...]

A lawyer for the man accused of the double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova said Friday that his client has confessed to the crime. Nikita Tikhonov and female companion Yevgenia Khasis were arrested Thursday and brought before the Basmanny District Court. In an interview on the radio program Echo [...]