The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Exxon Mobil owes interest on a punitive damages award entered against it for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill . In June, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 to reduce a punitive damages award to be paid by Exxon from $2.5 billion to $500 million, [...]
L. Ali Khan : "It is all but certain that Pervez Musharraf – America's hireling who ordered disappearances and murdered scores of innocent men, women, and children to appease the Bush Administration's unquenchable thirst for Muslim blood – will soon step down and relinquish a high seat of power that he had unlawfully occupied for [...]
The US Coast Guard on Wednesday resumed its investigatory hearings into a collision between a barge and a tanker which caused the spilling of approximately 400,000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River on July 23, resulting in the temporary closure of a 100-mile stretch of the waterway. Three foreign crew members from the Tintomara, [...]
JURIST] The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the organization has found significant evidence that Indian peacekeeping troops have committed sex-crimes while stationed with the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) . The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) began the investigation in May after receiving [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday reached a settlement agreement in a federal class action suit brought by two pro-immigration advocacy groups seeking to force the government to rule on the naturalization applications of over 350 immigrants living in Washington state. The settlement, still subject to approval by a US district court [...]
Aung Din : "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since May 30, 2003, under Article 10 (B) of the "State Protection Act 1975." This Act was promulgated by the General Ne Win's so-called Socialist government in 1975, and designed to arrest anyone who challenge single party rule. Article 10 (A) of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration which was brought by Valerie Plame , the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal . The appellate court found that the officials who [...]
United States of America v. Robert Ray Burnett Goddard, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a state ban on smoking in public restaurants and bars in Bavaria. The Bavarian ban is the strictest in the nation, where public smoking is regulated on a state-by-state basis. Last month, the Constitutional Court ruled that several other state anti-smoking laws allowing bars to designate a separate [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within the base. The petitioners argued that their solitary confinement in a higher security section of the base caused them mental suffering, but the [...]
