Ten accused Mexican drug cartel leaders and 33 others have been indicted in New York and Chicago, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday. According the indictments, four of which were filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York [...]
Planned Parenthood, et al. v. Rounds, et al., US District Court for the District of South Dakota, August 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on abortion.
Movsesian, et al. v. Versicherung, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Armenian Genocide.
Amnesty International USA, et al. v. McConnell, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, August 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on FISA.
Ten European Union (EU) nations have agreed to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees, and five more are giving the matter serious consideration, according to a Thursday Washington Post report . While Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have all either taken or publicly agreed to take detainees, administration officials said four other countries have privately [...]
Tunisia continues to commit hundreds of human rights abuses despite previous vows to cease, according to a report published Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report details the arrest, torture, and detention of prisoners in the name of national security, and even the kidnapping and forced return of Tunisians living abroad. The report urges [...]
Judge Reggie Walton of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling Wednesday that severely curtails the federal government's ability to use hearsay evidence in trials against Guantanamo Bay detainees. While in normal criminal and civil cases hearsay is not accepted as evidence unless it meets specific criteria, it has frequently [...]
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) does not support treason charges against former president Pervez Musharraf , making the requisite consensus resolution extremely unlikely. Gilani told parliament that in order to try Musharraf under Article 6 of the Pakistani Constitution, there would have to be a [...]
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced Thursday that convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is being released from prison on compassionate grounds and transferred to his native Libya. Megrahi was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, and his release comes days after the Scottish High Court of the Judiciary accepted [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday that several gay rights groups may not intervene in a lawsuit challenging California's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage , Proposition 8 , on federal constitutional grounds. Judge Vaughn Walker denied requests to intervene filed by groups represented by the American [...]
