A federal court on Monday stayed habeas corpus challenges brought by three detainees held at Bagram Air Base pending appeal. Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion filed in April by the government asking that he certify and suspend his earlier ruling , which allowed the [...]
The decision to not release photographs allegedly depicting detainee abuse followed warnings from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that releasing the photos would cause more violence and could delay the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, according to a McClatchy report published Monday. According to the report, Maliki warned that the public would not differentiate [...]
National Rifle Association of America, Inc. et al. v. City of Chicago, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, June 2, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. NRA v Chicago – Get more Business Documents
Bill C-35, Canadian Ministry of Public Safety, June 2, 2009 . Read the full text of the proposed legislation. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Manifesto sobre la reforma legislativa que introducira limitaciones el ejercicio de la justicia universal, more than 100 human rights groups, June 2, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Manifesto
US Attorney General Eric Holder said that appropriate steps would be taken to help prevent acts of violence related to the Sunday shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller . Holder has enlisted the US Marshal Service to offer protection to other at-risk people and facilities in the country. Additionally, Holder maintained that the Department of [...]
A California court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a state law that prohibits discrimination based on gender orientation or identity in public schools. Judge Shelleyanne Chang of the Sacramento County Superior Court said that the challenge to California Education Code sections 220 and 210.7 brought by Advocates for Faith and Freedom failed to state [...]
The Moscow City Court on Monday rejected the appeals of former Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev . The court dismissed all appeals from the preliminary hearings concerning the second set of embezzlement, oil theft, and money laundering charges against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev except for the appeal to keep [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government's motion on Monday to keep sealed unclassified judicial records connected to the imprisonment of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Judge Thomas Hogan ruled that the public has both First Amendment and common law rights to access the unclassified documents. The court stated [...]
Kevin Zeese : "The images of torture and abuse of prisoners are vivid. They are an embarrassment to a nation that led the efforts for the Geneva Convention which made torture and other war crimes illegal. Now, the United States have sunk to the point where a "liberal" president is planning preventive detention of Gitmo [...]
