A former Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office set to depart from the US embassy in Baghdad after a year-long posting told US Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a memo obtained by Fox News and published Friday that US officials in the country had mostly ignored legal culture institutions that address [...]
The US Department of Defense announced Friday that two more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been charged with war crimes. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul , alleged to be Osama bin Laden's personal assistant and media secretary, is charged with conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and attacks on civilians, and providing material support for terrorism. [...]
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey Saturday formally passed the first of two proposed amendments to the country's constitution that would ease a current ban on Islamic headscarves and allow women to wear headscarves in universities. The measure, which passed by a final vote of 403-107, requires that everyone receives equal treatment from state institutions. [...]
Arizona Contractors Association, Inc., et al., v. Criss Candelaria, et al., US District Court for the District of Arizona, February 7, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Nebraska v. Raymond Mata, Jr., Supreme Court of Nebraska, February 8, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
State of New Jersey, et al., v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, February 8, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Kenyan Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti Friday lifted a ban on public assembly in the strife-torn country, saying that "security has generally improved." The ban was imposed after violent protests broke out following December's contested presidential election , killing 1,000 people and displacing some 250,000 more. The announcement came as former UN Secretary-General Kofi [...]
A Spanish National Court judge Friday blocked two Basque political parties from fielding candidates in Spain's March general elections, ruling that the parties were connected to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement. Judge Baltasar Garzon found that Batasuna , ETA's banned political arm, had used the Basque Nationalist Action Party (ANV) and the Communist [...]
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday rejected a suggestion by the nation's highest Christian cleric that UK Muslims be given an option to resolve some civil disputes under Sharia law rather than UK law. Speaking to the BBC, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams appeared to agree that limited application of Sharia law might help to [...]
The Paris appeals court Friday ordered accused "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel held in custody while an investigation continues into $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades he allegedly made while working for French bank Societe Generale . The court granted a request by prosecutors to hold Kerviel in "provisional detention" to prevent him from fleeing the [...]
