JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Kattan of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, says that Israel's Gaza offensive cannot be legally justified by any right of self-defense and instead constitutes aggression and a forcible deprivation of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination… The images speak for [...]
Iraq has become the 186th nation to join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by acceding to the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention , the organization announced Wednesday. A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Iraq's move , saying that it showed the Iraqi government's "commitment to disarmament and non-proliferation," and adding: [...]
A judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted habeas to Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani and directed his release. El Gharani, a Chadian citizen born in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of ties to al Qaeda. Judge Richard Leon ruled that the government had failed [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Puckett v. United States , the Court heard arguments on whether a defendant's claim, not raised at trial, that the prosecution breached a plea agreement is reviewable on appeal according to the plain-error standard under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure . The [...]
A judge in the Penal Chamber of the National Court of Spain in Madrid on Tuesday ordered a trial for the men allegedly responsible for the killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter. Judge Eloy Velasco admitted the plea entered in November by the Spanish Association for Human Rights , finding that [...]
The convening authority of military commissions Susan Crawford has said that torture tactics were used in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani , a suspect held at Guantanamo Bay under allegations of connections to the 9/11 attacks, according to a Wednesday interview in the Washington Post. Crawford made the statement after nearly two years of reviewing [...]
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered that copies of the documents related to the investigation into the late 2006 firings of nine US attorneys be provided by the Bush administration to the incoming Obama administration. The court order indicated that the US House of Representatives [...]
Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Herring v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Mohammed El Gharani v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
