Daniel M. Smith : " I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. James Madison, 1788 October 23, 2001. For sixteen days, U.S. warplanes had been dropping the very latest GPS-guided iron bombs [...]
Federal authorities have arrested and charged 84-year-old American citizen Ben-Ami Kadish on four counts of conspiracy to disclose US defense and nuclear weaponry documents to Israel and to act as an Israeli agent, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. The complaint filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Tuesday partially overturned the convictions of former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura, reducing sentences issued for failure to check or punish war atrocities committed against Bosnian Croat and Serb civilians by troops under their command during the [...]
Thomas C., and Pamela McIntosh, v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, April 21, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Benzman, et al. v. Whitman, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, April 22, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Giles v. California , 07-6053, where the Court considered whether a criminal defendant can block the testimony of the person he allegedly killed if he did not kill her with the specific intent of preventing the witness from testifying. Dwayne Giles was convicted of first-degree murder [...]
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday unveiled new proposed regulations to implement the federal No Child Left Behind Act . At a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, Spelling said : Today, more than 50 years after Brown v. the Board of Education, 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and [...]
Asim Qureshi : "After years of being held in detention without charge, the British men released from Guantanamo Bay who are pursuing legal action against the intelligence services are sending a very clear message to both governments and security services: there is no room for arbitrary detention and torture. The released men – who were [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that Christine Todd Whitman , former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , cannot be sued for making allegedly misleading reassurances about the air quality in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2004, residents and workers in lower Manhattan and [...]
The Iraqi government on Monday released 122 detainees from a prison in Sulaimaniyah under an amnesty law passed in February as part of the national reconciliation effort. The release was part of an effort to ease crowding in Iraqi prisons and reintegrate people convicted of minor crimes back into society; most of the released detainees [...]
