International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday renewed his call for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader and war crimes suspect Joseph Kony after new attacks attributed to the rebels. Moreno-Ocampo said Kony's group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , was responsible for attacks on Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) civilians earlier [...]
Kristen Clarke : "Polling places should be intimidation-free spaces in which all voters are able to freely cast their ballot without interference or obstruction. Both federal law and a number of state laws include provisions that are aimed at ensuring that voters do not face intimidation during elections. The deployment or mere presence of law [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday began its 2008 term , in which it has agreed to hear cases involving pre-emption of state law, the separation of church and state, and broadcast indecency, among other issues. The Court began hearing oral arguments Monday with Altria Group v. Good (07-562) , presenting the question of whether [...]
Officials for Bank of America announced Monday that they have agreed to an $8.4 billion settlement in response to allegations by 11 state attorneys general that subsidiary Countrywide Financial engaged in deceptive business practices that harmed consumers. California Attorney General Jerry Brown, a leading figure in the negotiations, sued Countrywide in June, claiming that the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that while purporting to have improved the judicial selection process, President Bush has in fact perpetuated and even exacerbated the counterproductive dynamics of allegations and countercharges, partisan division and paybacks… Today, President George W. Bush travels to Ohio, a critical battleground [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, says that the current financial crisis reflects a failure on the part of lawmakers and regulators to learn some of the key lessons of the Enron collapse several years ago…. In 2002, after Enron had collapsed, Congress [...]
Italy's Constitutional Court was asked Saturday to rule on a new law granting top Italian lawmakers immunity from prosecution while in office as a judge in Milan formally suspended a long-running corruption case against Italian Prime Minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi . For the last 18 months Berlusconi and lawyer David Mills have been [...]
US Department of Justice officials announced Friday that a private security company contracted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and four of its executives and employees have been charged with conspiracy, major fraud and wire fraud in connection with alleged efforts to interfere with US military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Delmar Dwayne [...]
Kenyan police Saturday confirmed that Ethiopian authorities have released eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, saying that the suspects have been reunited with their families. Kenyan authorities rendered the suspects to Somalia in early 2007, where they were handed over to the Ethiopian military and questioned by both US and Ethiopian intelligence. Kenyan officials will continue to [...]
The US Department of Defense Friday announced the referral of nine terrorism-related charges against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , who is accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania . Ghailani, who was transferred to detention facilities at Guantanamo from secret CIA detention in 2006, is charged with [...]
