CBOCS West v. Humphries, US Supreme Court, May, 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Gomez-Perez v. Potter, US Supreme Court, May 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Zimbabwe will not return former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia to face a death sentence, a Zimbabwean Information Ministry official said Tuesday. The Ethiopian Supreme Court sentenced Mengistu to death in absentia on Monday after Ethiopian prosecutors appealed his January 2007 life sentence on charges of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment, and illegal property [...]

A Chilean judge Monday ordered the arrest of 98 people suspected of covering up over 100 kidnappings and murders during the 1973-1990 rule of former military dictator Augusto Pinochet . The court's investigation is focused on the regime's program of torturing and "disappearing" political dissidents, and those arrested include former members of the country's National [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Tuesday, including two cases involving alleged employer retaliation . In Gomez-Perez v. Potter , the Court held 6-3 that a provision in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects government employees who complain of age discrimination from subsequent retaliation. The Court reversed a ruling by the US [...]

The five states that border the Arctic – Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the US – will meet in Greenland Wednesday to discuss plans to divide harvesting rights to resources and minerals on the Arctic seabed. Under the Law of the Sea Treaty , a country has exclusive harvesting rights to a zone extending 200 [...]

Former Peruvian general Rodolfo Robles testified Monday that he believed that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was responsible for two massacres that took place during his presidency in the early 1990s, but admitted that he did not have any evidence linking Fujimori to the deaths. He said that he had "absolute conviction" that Fujimori authorized [...]

The ruling junta of Myanmar Tuesday extended the house arrest of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, a decision that has angered and frustrated many in the international community. Suu Kyi's detention was set to expire at midnight Tuesday, although the military government was widely expected to issue the extension. The extension [...]

Former Argentine general Luciano Benjamin Menendez and seven others went on trial Tuesday for the alleged 1977 kidnapping, torture, and killing of four political dissidents during the country's "Dirty War" . The 80-year old Menendez, who commanded an army corps in the late 1970s, was originally taken into custody in 2005, when a judge ordered [...]

Uganda has established a special court to hear cases of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses related to an ongoing rebellion in the country , a High Court judge said Monday. Uganda's government agreed to create the war crimes court in February during peace negotiations with the guerrilla Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) . There [...]