Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday placed an injunction on a federal law that gave the government the ability to access and collect Internet and telephone data. The law, which went into effect in January, allowed the government to collect information such as e-mail addresses, numbers dialed, and lengths of calls from service providers. The [...]
Lawyers for the current acting Fijian government argued in court Wednesday that the December military coup was legal because Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo had reserve powers that permitted the president to dismiss the government and appoint new leaders. Former Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase brought the lawsuit against the acting government, saying that the [...]
A lawyer representing a group of Illinois pharmacists asked the state supreme court Tuesday to strike down a 2005 emergency rule issued by Illinois Governor Rod Blogjevich which requires pharmacies to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, including emergency contraception. During oral arguments , the pharmacists' lawyer argued that the rule requires them to dispense drugs contrary [...]
The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States , against Mexico, alleging that the Mexican government failed to adequately respond to the 1974 disappearance of guerrilla sympathizer Rosendo Radilla during Mexico's so-called "dirty war" [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after the invasion of Iraq, with talk of a new war with Iran circulating in Washington, the United States would do well to reflect on the grave and unfortunate consequences of flouting international law… On this fifth anniversary of the [...]
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday announced a new pilot program under the federal No Child Left Behind program that is aimed at narrowing statewide education reform to focus on schools most in need of "dramatic intervention": One thing we know for sure is that we must take dramatic action to improve our lowest-performing [...]
A US Marine sergeant was charged Tuesday with one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting of a detained Iraqi insurgent during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah . Sgt. Ryan Weemer, who was a corporal at the time of the battle , [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 18, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al., v. The Regents of the University of Michigan, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, March 18, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Parliament of Kenya Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a power-sharing agreement between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga . The Kenya Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008 , intended to end violence sparked by the country's disputed 2007 presidential election , names Odinga as the nation's first Prime Minister. The agreement has [...]
