Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic submitted a letter Thursday to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) claiming that irregularities surrounding his trial there on war crimes charges will prevent a fair trial. Karadzic was originally indicted by the court's prosecutor in 1995, but had been in hiding under an [...]
County of San Diego et al., v. San Diego Norml et al., Wendy Christakes, et al., California Fourth District Court of Appeal, July 31, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment against Cheryl Steele, a former economist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) who had filed a lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment and unlawful retaliation against her in violation of Title [...]
Judges for California's Fourth District Court of Appeal in San Diego ruled Thursday that challenged provisions of California's Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) are constitutional and do not violate the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) . The counties of San Diego and San Bernardino had argued that certain provisions of the MMP were unconstitutional as violations [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will pay former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven Hatfill $2.8 million to settle his claim that the DOJ violated the US Privacy Act by providing information about him to journalists during its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks , in which he was at [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday obtained and made available a government handbook issued to the lawyers defending the illegal immigrants arrested in May during the massive raid on an Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Iowa. The document contains pre-printed forms with blanks for the defendants' names, along with instructions for waiving constitutional [...]
The US Senate passed a bill late on Thursday designed to increase the safety of children's products by mandating new safety rules and restricting the kinds of materials which may be used. The legislation establishes a maximum level of lead, bans certain plastics, requires independent product testing and labeling, and strengthens the authority of the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday affirmed a decision to dismiss claims filed by fifteen current and former inmates alleging that various employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) violated their constitutional rights when they confiscated inmates' legal materials. After a DOC inmate filed fraudulent liens against a state [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Flatt of the University of Houiston Law Center says the recent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to vacate the EPA’s implementation of the Clean Air Interstate Rule reminds us that the statutory mandates of our environmental laws are important, and that an individual administration cannot simply change or alter them [...]
Aaron Zisser : "The first week of the first trial at Guantánamo Bay did not seem, at first glance, particularly extraordinary. True, there were some obvious differences between civilian courts and the military commission courtroom hosting the trial of Salim Hamdan, accused of serving as a driver, bodyguard and weapons runner for Osama Bin Laden. [...]
