A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California found two US Marines in contempt of court Friday after the two declined to testify against their former squad leader in a trial over the killing of Iraqi detainees during the Multinational Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah . Judge Stephen Larson [...]
Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday ruled that the use of specific documents from an illegal immigrant's alien-registration file during the immigrant's criminal trial is constitutional. The issue came before the court when the defendant, Franklin Burgos, appealed his conviction on one count of illegal reentry into the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that the federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) does not provide for statutory relief for a lender's failure to conspicuously disclose certain information about a loan to the borrower and to give the borrower certain information before offering the loan. The issue came [...]
Darrell Combs, Kathleen Combs v. Homer-Center School District, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 21, 2008 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Russian court on Friday rejected an application for parole made by former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who applied for early release from Krasnokamensk penal colony in July. Khodorkovsky headed the now-bankrupt OAO Yukos Oil Co. and was sent to prison by the Russian government in 2005 to serve an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax [...]
Prosecutors before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday appealed the indictment of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," saying it should have included additional charges. The court had issued a closing order earlier this month to officially indict Duch on charges of crimes against humanity and [...]
JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that lawyers' fees may be included in restitution awards granted to corporate fraud victims. The Second Circuit affirmed the lower court's decision to order Joseph Amato and John Fasciana to pay $12.8 million in restitution, including over $3 million in lawyers' fees, to [...]
Three of the largest brokerage firms in the US reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General's office and securities regulators representing 48 states on Thursday, agreeing to pay $10 billion to investors who purchased auction rate securities. The agreement is the result of an effort to settle claims that Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that a Pennsylvania law imposing reporting and curriculum review requirements on parents who home school their children does not violate federal freedom of religion protections. The case was brought by six families who had argued that Act 169 , the state law requiring the [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) assigned a new panel of judges Thursday to the upcoming war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic . The changes come following Karadzic's recent request , in which he argued that presiding Judge Alphons Orie and other judges assigned to the case are [...]
