The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that Canadian citizen Maher Arar cannot sue the US government for damages based on his detention in the US and his detention, interrogation, and torture in Syria after he was mistakenly identified as a terrorist. Arar attempted to challenge the US government's policy of [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a comprehensive solution to the status of Kirkuk must be reached soon lest it become for Iraq the type of intractable and fundamentally corrosive problem slavery had become for the United States by 1861…. As is commonly reported, when [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has struck down a City of Pittsburgh ordinance that created a layered zone structure to prevent protesters from gathering outside abortion facilities. The ordinance created a "buffer zone," preventing protesters from coming within 15 feet of the entrance of a medical facility, and also a "bubble [...]
Arar v. Ashcroft, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 2, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Maher Arar.
Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. US Patent and Trademark Office, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, November 2, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more coverage pertaining to patent law.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases. In Jones v. Harris Associates , the Court heard arguments on whether a shareholder must show that a fund's investment adviser misled the fund's directors in order to have a cognizable claim of an excessive fee under section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act [...]
Geoffrey Lomax : "CIRM welcomes Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth's dismissal of Sherely v. Sebelius. The National Institute of Health (NIH) Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research represent sound public policy consistent with the approach adopted by CIRM, other states and the international community. The NIH Guidelines support autonomy by offering individuals with embryos leftover [...]
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Monday declared President Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election after challenger Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the runoff election to which both parties agreed last month. Abdullah withdrew from the race on Sunday saying he could not be certain the upcoming vote would be free or fair. The [...]
Human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond mining industry were on the agenda Monday at the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP) , the global organization dedicated to suppressing trade in so-called "conflict diamonds." The objective of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is to curtail trade in conflict diamonds, or rough diamonds used by [...]
The War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Friday convicted former Serbian commander Predrag Kujundzic of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 22 years in jail. The court found Kujundzic in violation of Article 172 (1) h) of the Criminal Code of BiH . The court found that as the commander of [...]
