Farzana Hassan : "For those who think the veil symbolizes the oppression of Muslim women – think again. In an American court in August of 2006, the veil instead became a symbol of clear defiance to legal protocol and authority. Ginnah Muhammad, who refused to remove her face-veil to identity herself as the complainant in [...]
Greg Loarie : "At its core, Sierra Forest Legacy v. Rey (incorrectly titled CBD v. Rey) challenges the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (also known as the "2004 Framework"), which establishes management direction for all 11 national forests in the Sierra Nevada. The 2004 Framework replaced the original "2001 Framework," which set forth a [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is pursuing fraud charges against four former Time Warner executives for their alleged involvement in a 2000-2002 plot to defraud investors by inflating advertising revenue, according to Monday reports. Charges against four other executives, including former head of the company's business affairs unit David Colburn , have been settled. [...]
Sahr MuhammedAlly : "On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad – an Afghan national who was 16 or 17 years old at the time of his arrest in Kabul in December 2002 – made his first public appearance to the world when he appeared before a military judge in pre-trial military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
UK legislators Monday voted 336-176 against a proposed ban on the use of human-animal hybrid embryo stem cells in scientific and medical research. The decision was highly controversial, with many ban proponents arguing that it was necessary to prevent potential attempts at human genetic engineering. In a Sunday editorial in the Observer, UK Prime Minister [...]
Kevin Lanigan : "The U.S. military in Iraq is quickly moving toward its first court-martial of a civilian contractor since the Vietnam war. The case holds some promise of beginning to reign in a pervasive culture of contractor impunity, but nevertheless raises important constitutional and human rights issues. And the case begs a critical question [...]
New Zealand's Human Rights Commission announced Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act , a 1990 law guaranteeing freedom from discrimination. The decision came in response to a challenge injured worker John Howard made to the country's Injury [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a measure to establish an anti-corruption council to be headed by Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin , Medvedev announced at a Monday press conference . Medvedev said that a comprehensive national anti-corruption program was necessary to tackle social and economic graft and also to eliminate a prevailing culture [...]
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Demjanjuk v. Mukasey , ending the appeals process of a deportation order for accused former Nazi concentration camp guard and Ohio resident John Demjanjuk . Demjanjuk, twice stripped of his US citizenship, had argued that the immigration judge who ordered his deportation lacked the authority to do [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally received cash from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving as a minister of industry, trade and labor, a state prosecutor said Monday in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Israel. Last week, police raided Olmert's offices as part of the investigation into corruption allegations against Olmert. Talansky denied [...]
