The number of employment discrimination charges against private employers filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) increased by 15 percent in 2008 to reach record highs, according to EEOC statistics released Wednesday. The EEOC cited several possible reasons for the increase, "including economic conditions, increased diversity and demographic shifts in the labor force, [...]
Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday released jailed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party treasurer general and opposition cabinet member-designate Roy Bennett , one day after the nation's Supreme Court denied a state appeal to keep him in prison. Bennett, a top aide to MDC head Morgan Tsvangirai , faces charges under Zimbabwe's Public Order and Security [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers' movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan's lawyers and civil society by pressing Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to reinstate the country's ousted chief justice and fully [...]
William Perry Pendley : "Mountain States Legal Foundation welcomes the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Ysursa v. Pocatello Education Association issued February 24, 2009. MSLF had filed a friend of the court brief in support of the Idaho Secretary of State, Mr. Ysursa, at the Supreme Court arguing that the [...]
Pakistan government forces conducted raids and arrested opposition members, including members of the country's lawyers' movement , prior to a protest rally led Wednesday by former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif . Among those targeted Tuesday night were lawyers' movement leader Aitzaz Ahsan and Imran Khan, founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf [...]
The Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday approved a settlement agreement between Canadian meatpacker Maple Leaf Foods and class action plaintiffs who brought suit against the company in connection with sales of meat tainted with listeria monocytogenes . The tainted meat sickened 56 Canadians and caused 20 deaths across the country in 2008. Under [...]
The government of Libya has released two men convicted in 2007 of planning to overthrow the government and meeting with a foreign official, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Tuesday. Jamal al-Haji and Faraj Humaid were arrested as part of a larger group in Tripoli in February 2007, in advance of a demonstration commemorating the deaths [...]
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid and former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz Wednesday to 15 years in prison, respectively, for their parts in the 1992 murders of 42 merchants accused of price-gouging during a period of UN-imposed sanctions. Aziz and al-Majid, the cousin of Saddam Hussein better known as "Chemical [...]
German prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have filed charges against former Nazi concentration camp guard and Ohio resident John Demjanjuk . Demjanjuk is charged with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged involvement at the Sobibor concentration camp, where more than 260,000 people were executed in the gas chambers. A former Soviet solider, [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that an unpublished list of items prohibited from airplanes does not have any binding effect on individuals unless it is made public. The list is set out in an annex to Regulation 622/2003 , but under Article 3 of that regulation is made available only to "persons [...]
