A military judge Tuesday postponed the scheduled April 28 court-martial for a US Marine charged in connection with the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha , rescheduling the trial for June 17. According to lawyers for Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani , who faces court-martial for dereliction of duty and violation of [...]
Frank Kendall : "Last week I traveled to Guantánamo Navy Base as a monitor for Human Rights First. I observed pretrial hearings in the cases of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, and Omar Ahmed Khadr. The ostensible goal of the military commissions is to provide fair trials for a [...]
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) Tuesday settled its lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) challenging the department's tactics for dealing with large protests. Under the settlement, the NYPD agreed to make sure protesters can get into designated demonstration areas and that any "pens" (enclosed areas) have sufficient openings such that protesters [...]
A New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that a $7 billion lawsuit filed by Italian dairy giant Parmalat SpA against Citigroup could go forward on a claim that Citigroup aided and abetted former Parmalat executives in misappropriating company money. Parmalat has alleged that Citigroup helped obscure the state of Parmalat's finances and helped to [...]
A US military court opened an Article 32 hearing in Baghdad on Tuesday for a civilian military contractor accused of aggravated assault. Earlier this month, the US military charged Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali, a dual Iraqi-Canadian citizen working as a translator in Iraq, with the February stabbing of another contractor. He is the first civilian [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of dictator Pol Pot by urging the international community and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to continue efforts to bring senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge to justice. Ban said: I would like to remind the international community of [...]
A three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Tuesday regarding the constitutionality of a private body established by Congress to oversee accounting practices in publicly traded companies. In 2006, conservative business organization Free Enterprise Fund challenged provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishing the Public [...]
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction to intervene in Khadr's case to determine whether only detainees found to be "unlawful enemy combatants" may be subject to a military commission , or if such [...]
United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., et al., US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
