US President George Bush on Monday signed into law the Libyan Claims Resolution Act , which allows the Secretary of State to settle remaining civil claims brought by US citizens against Libya for bombings allegedly carried out by groups linked to the government in the late 1980s. The bill is seen as an effort to [...]
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi deployed about 3,000 military troops to major Italian cities on Monday in a movement designed to reduce crime throughout the country. The plan is part of a larger package approved by the Italian Senate last year, meant to reduce petty crime and Mafia activity and to slow illegal immigration. The [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held on Monday that federal courts must rule on an international petition for child repatriation unless a state court has already fully considered and ruled on the petition. The ruling came in a case involving a father's petition under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA) [...]
Kevin Scott : "The balance that needs to be struck on the use of testimony from anonymous witnesses at criminal trials is between the protection of witnesses and the need for a fair trial. In the UK, over half of all murder trials, particularly those involving organised crime or ethnic minority gang killings, have seen [...]
G. Eugene Martin : "I am encouraged by recent news of an agreement between the government of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiators but am somewhat skeptical that the underlying causes of the conflict have been fully addressed. The gap between the Philippine government and the Moro minority is extensive as each [...]
Florida House of Representatives Speaker Marco Rubio announced on Monday that the House will join the state of Florida in defending a challenge to a law requiring travel agencies booking flights to Cuba to post a bond ten times greater than that of other agencies. Proponents of the law state that it is in keeping [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Monday that a former Temple University sexual harassment policy was unconstitutionally broad and violated the freedom of expression of graduate student Christian DeJohn . DeJohn submitted his complaint against the university in February 2006, alleging that the school's policy had prevented him from expressing his [...]
Christian M. Dejohn v. Temple University, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 8, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Iraqi law makers Monday reached an agreement to temporarily divide control of Kirkuk among the city's ethnic groups, as part of a compromise bill providing for provincial elections in the city. Control of Kirkuk has been major point of contention, with Kurdish members of the country's parliament demanding a referendum allowing city residents to decide [...]
A judge for the Supreme Court of the Philippines Monday enjoined government agents from signing a peace agreement with rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) , which would have granted expanded boundaries to the country's southern Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) . The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) first [...]
