Officials from the G8 countries on Saturday agreed to work toward establishing a system for trying pirates captured in African waters . The recent increase in pirate activity has created problems for where to try captured pirates. If the pirates are tried in Europe, they may be able to bring successful asylum claims, and in [...]

SB 283: An Act relating to domestic relations; providing for the registration and dissolution of domestic partnerships in the State of Nevada; setting forth the rights and responsibilities attendant to such partnerships; and providing other matters properly relating thereto, Nevada Assembly, May 31, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. sb 283 – Get [...]

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith confirmed on Friday that Australia is considering the Obama administration's request that Australia accept six of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees who have already been cleared for release. Smith said that each case will be considered using the same guidelines that were used to consider the prior petition , congruent [...]

US President Barack Obama rebuked Republicans who would oppose his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the US Supreme Court Saturday in his weekly address. The president predicted failure for "those in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint [...]

The Obama administration urged the US Supreme Court Friday to reject a petition for certiorari filed by 14 Chinese Uighur Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay seeking their release. Taking the same stance as the Bush administration, the Obama administration argued in its reply brief that although the Court has the power to order the release [...]

Hoon Lee : "South Korea is now almost at the end of a 7-day national mourning period for its former (16th) president, Roh Moo Hyun, who had abruptly ended his life by jumping off a cliff near his retirement village of Bong-ha, with a state "people's funeral" set to take place this Friday (May 29th). [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a convicted marijuana grower should not have to forfeit her house pursuant to a sentence since asset forfeiture may result in unequal treatment of convicted criminals. The court, reviewing a Court of Appeal for British Columbia ruling , rejected the lower court's totality approach that combined terms [...]

A New York state appeals court ruled that a family court does not have jurisdiction over a child support claim against a same-sex partner with no legal or biological ties to the child. In an opinion released Tuesday, the court ruled that a family court of limited jurisdiction has not been specifically authorized to entertain [...]

A prosecutor from the Spanish National Court has asked that arrest warrants be issued for three accused Nazi prison guards currently living in the US. Prosecutor Pedro Martinez Torrijos said that Johann Leprich , Anton Tittjung and Josias Kumpf are accomplices to genocide owing to their roles guarding prisoners at the Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, and Flossenburg [...]

Defense counsel for Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black on Thursday submitted an application for bail pending appeal to Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court . The application for bail follows the Supreme Court's recent grant of certiorari in Black's case, appealing his fraud conviction. The appeal challenges the appellate court's interpretation of [...]