Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday withdrew a lawsuit she had brought against president Victor Yushchenko and the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) challenging Yushchenko's plan to dissolve parliament and hold new elections. Tymoshenko said the challenge was dropped because Yushchenko last week suspended his plan to hold elections on December 4, citing the [...]
Reports of hate crimes dropped approximately one percent in 2007 from the previous year but incidents of sexual-orientation bias crimes increased by six percent, according to the 2007 Hate Crime Statistics released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Monday. The FBI reported 7,621 single-bias hate crime incidents — those in which one or [...]
Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. on Monday settled an antitrust suit with Discover Financial Services for $2.75 billion. Under the settlement, $1.8875 billion was apportioned to Visa and $862.5 million to Mastercard under a judgment-sharing agreement. This settlement is the result of a 2004 lawsuit filed by Discover after a US Department of Justice suit [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Laos to release leaders of the ethnic minority Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand and imprisoned in Laos for their roles in a June protest demonstration Thai refugee camp, denouncing the move for "confirm the fear many Hmong asylum seekers and refugees have expressed of being [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California Monday sentenced Steven Schulman and David Bershad, two former partners of the law firm now known as Milberg LLP , to six months in prison each for their role in a scheme to pay lead plaintiffs illegally in class-action lawsuits brought by [...]
Lakhdar Boumediene, et al. v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US presidential campaigns of both Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain are recruiting large numbers of lawyers to monitor and protect voters' rights in the upcoming national election, according to a New York Times report . The Obama camp initiated its Voter Protection Program targeting lawyers and law students at the start of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Monday preliminarily enjoined parts of a new state law requiring registered sex offenders to avoid most Halloween activities, suggesting that parts of the law as written are too broad and vague. The law, which was passed in June, requires that on [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas NeJaime of UCLA School of Law says that despite what some of its proponents are claiming or implying in the run-up to November 4, California Proposition 8 does not involve children or curriculum – it simply involves the fundamental right of lesbians and gay men to marry… Will the failure of [...]
A jury for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday convicted Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) on seven counts of making false statements relating to an alleged corruption scheme and for falsifying his Financial Disclosure Forms. Stevens had been charged with accepting approximately $250,000 in gifts over an eight-year period from the [...]
