Energy company Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals (KMBT) was sentenced Wednesday for its improper disposal of potash (potassium chloride) in violation of the Ocean Dumping Act . In 2003, a KMBT employee dumped 160 metric tons of potash into the ocean after the substance came into contact with water and was therefore unsaleable. KMBT will pay [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Waters of the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, says that even assuming that Russia has a legitimate self-defence claim on the basis of protection of its nationals abroad its actions against Georgia have exceeded the well-known customary international law requirements of necessity and proportionality…. For anyone [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held Wednesday that publisher Penguin Group will retain the right to publish ten John Steinbeck novels. The heirs involved in this copyright action already receive a percentage of the sales proceeds, but initiated this action because they believed they were entitled to a greater portion. The [...]
California's court-appointed prison medical overseer J. Clark Kelso has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to force the state to pay $8 billion over the next five years to improve prison hospitals, according to court papers filed Wednesday. Kelso has previously said that California prisons need an influx of $7 [...]
Thailand Supreme Court vice president Krairiksh Kasemsant and army General Anupong Paochinda on Wednesday said there was no evidence to support accusations by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that the country's judiciary is biased against the former leader. Thaksin,who faces numerous corruption charges, most recently made the claim Monday when he announced that he and his wife [...]
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf should resign from office immediately, US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said in a statement released on Monday. The same day that Pakistan's Punjab Provincial Assembly voted to ask Musharraf to resign or face possible impeachment by the country's parliament, Harkin said : Members of Pakistan's Punjab province local assembly's vote today [...]
Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, said Wednesday that his staff is collecting evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Georgian forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia . European Union leaders are planning to meet in Brussels to discuss the conflict and UK Foreign Minister David Miliband said that action should be [...]
French judges have launched an investigation into torture allegations by a Palestinian doctor who was detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a judicial official said Tuesday. Last year, Ashraf Jima Hajuj filed a lawsuit in France against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , relying on [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming on Tuesday granted the state an injunction prohibiting the National Forest Service (NFS) from enforcing a 2001 rule prohibiting the construction of roads and other developments in designated wilderness areas. Writing for the court, Judge Clarence Brimmer said that the rule violated both the [...]
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials accused of politicizing the hiring process will likely not face criminal prosecution, Attorney General Michael Mukasey told members of the American Bar Association on Tuesday. Mukasey criticized DOJ officials for considering political affiliation in assessing job applicants, but noted that employees hired under the politicized process were not necessarily [...]
