The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected a complaint filed by high-end grocer Whole Foods Market against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month seeking an injunction barring the agency from holding administrative proceedings regarding the company's 2007 merger with another high-end grocer, Wild Oats Market . [...]
US President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Friday repealing a ban on federal funding for international family planning programs that provide or give out information and counseling about abortion . The Reagan-era directive called the "Mexico City policy" prohibited US funding, typically in the form of grants from US Agency for International Development (USAID) , [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday denied a petition for rehearing in the case of Wadih El-Hage who was convicted of the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. El-Hage's petition for rehearing contended that the circuit court's earlier decision on Fourth Amendment challenges omitted any consideration [...]
Howard M. Friedman : "For an administration that has made so much of both transparency and technology, to date the Obama staff has earned an extremely low grade on content and timeliness of the new White House website. The Bush White House quickly posted Presidential statements and remarks, news items regarding the President's activities, bill [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday placed justice minister Daniel Friedman in charge of defending Israel against war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Gaza . Olmert appointed Friedman to head an inter-ministerial team to investigate and form a legal defense against potential war crimes charges for the civilians and military personnel involved [...]
Both Russia and Georgia must investigate possible violations of the laws of war during and after the week-long South Ossetia conflict in August 2008, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, entitled "Up in Flames: Humanitarian Law Violations in the Conflict Over South Ossetia," alleges that Russian, Georgian, [...]
The prison formerly known as Abu-Ghraib will be reopened as soon as renovations are completed, and will be renamed Baghdad Central Prison, officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Justice in Baghdad announced on Thursday. Several Iraqi government officials, including Acting Justice Minister Safaaldeen Al-Safi have visited the site to inspect the work in progress, which [...]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a review of the detention of Qatar national Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri . Al-Marri is the only individual currently being held on US soil by the Department of Defense (DOD) as an enemy combatant , and is unaffected by Obama's order to close the offshore Guantanamo Bay prison [...]
Human rights figures and political leaders around the world hailed Thursday's executive order by US President Barack Obama closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay welcomed the decision to close the prison, expressing hope that it would be closed soon and that the trials of detainees would take [...]
Admiral Dennis Blair, nominated by US President Barack Obama for Director of National Intelligence, on Thursday stressed his respect for civil liberties and lawfulness in intelligence investigations during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in anticipation of his expected appointment. Blair addressed the treatment of detainees by stating his opposition to the use of torture [...]
