Jim Arkedis : "With the secretive conviction of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee this week to twelve years' hard labor in a North Korean camp, you might be surprised to learn that North Korea actually has a functioning judiciary system. Though the West has little insight into how it works, we know that [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday night released an order allowing the sale of Chrysler Group assets to Italian automaker Fiat to proceed. The two-page opinion vacates a temporary stay issued on Monday by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the petitioners did not meet their burden of showing that a delay is [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts regulation prohibiting prisoners from receiving sexually explicit mail is constitutional. The petitioners challenged the portions of 103 CMR § 481.15 , which regulate the receipt of sexually explicit pictures in the mail and the display of sexually explicit or suggestive images, [...]
The US-led Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq said Tuesday that it is still holding 11,057 Iraqi prisoners in three separate camps throughout the country. The prisoners currently held in the three US camps, Camp Taji, Camp Cropper, and Camp Bucca, will either be released or transferred to Iraqi authorities as the military works to transfer [...]
Opuz v. Turkey, European Court of Human Rights, June 9, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Resolution Impeaching Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, for high crimes and misdemeanors, US House of Representatives, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Kent impeachment
Indiana State Police Pension Trust, et al. v. Chrysler LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Chrysler order
Josselyn, et al. v. Tyree, et al., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, June 9, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Josselyn v Tyree
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday condemned the violence perpetrated against civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia, during an uptick in fighting between government and militia forces over the weekend, as a violation of international human rights law. Calling the treatment of the civilian population "unacceptable," Guillermo Bettocchi, the UNHCR Representative [...]
Confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will begin on July 13, as announced Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy . The committee released a schedule for the process that attempts to follow a time line of Justice Roberts' confirmation. The schedule foresees Sotomayor being confirmed on August 6, before the [...]
