The Australian Federal Court ruled Tuesday that a law giving police regulatory powers over potentially "annoying" behavior during World Youth Day (WYD) was unconstitutional and possibly exceeded legislative intent. Section 7(1)(b) of the World Youth Day Amendment Regulation 2008 , designed to amend and supplement Section 58 of the original World Youth Day Act 2006 [...]
Indonesia on Tuesday formally accepted a joint Indonesian-East-Timorese Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) finding that Indonesia was responsible for human rights violations following a 1999 referendum in which East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia . This is the first time that Indonesia has accepted any responsibility for the attacks in East Timor, which [...]
Malaysian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim following his failure to appear at a Malaysian police station to give a statement regarding sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According to police, Ibrahim had been scheduled to appear at the Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters Monday at 2:00 PM [...]
Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr released an excerpt Tuesday of a 2003 interrogation of Khadr conducted by Canadian officials, marking the first time Guantanamo interrogation footage has been available to the public. The eight-minute clip is part of seven hours of footage given to lawyers after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in [...]
Members of the US Senate Republican Conference Monday called for an end to delays in considering federal district and circuit court judges nominated by President George W. Bush. Members of the Conference said the delays have lead to chronic under-staffing of federal courts and that some courts have only three quarters of their positions filled, leading [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that even though the recent indictment of sitting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Darfur might appear to provide a precedent for indicting US President George W. Bush for alleged war [...]
Frank O'Donnell : "The Clean Air Interstate Rule was the foundation of the Bush administration's air pollution policy, and that foundation has now been blown to smithereens. Its demise will mean that tens of millions of Americans will be breathing dirty air for a longer time. Particularly reprehensible in this affair is the behavior of [...]
The Federal Reserve Board on Monday approved new rules for home mortgage loans designed to reduce unfair lending practices and increase consumer protection. The new rule amends the Truth in Lending Act to include prohibitions against granting loans without a verification of the borrower's ability to repay, bans on some debt prepayment penalties and requirements [...]
A New York district court judge ruled Monday that Internet auction house eBay is not required to actively monitor its website for the sale of counterfeit goods. The decision comes in a case brought by jeweler Tiffany & Company , alleging that eBay diluted its trademark by facilitating the sale of "copycat" Tiffany jewelry. EBay [...]
Five men involved in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic planes leaving a London airport pleaded guilty to lesser conspiracy charges Monday in London's Woolwich Crown Court . Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvir Hussain admitted that they planned to set off bombs but insisted that their only intention was to create a [...]
