The US Department of Justice asked US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Wednesday to lift a preliminary injunction restricting the US Navy's use of sonar along the coast of Southern California. President Bush granted an exemption earlier this month allowing the Navy to continue using sonar, after which Cooper eased portions of the order . The [...]
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) "unreasonably delayed" the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money , adding that it is now impossible for the DOI to remedy the breach. The decade-old Indian Trust case returned [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by residents of New Orleans against the US Army Corps of Engineers , ruling that the Flood Control Act of 1928 grants immunity to the Corps. The residents of New Orleans sued the Corps alleging that the Corps had been negligent in the collapse [...]
Elisabeth Borrel : "At the beginning the two states , France and Djibouti, and in particular their two presidents – Chirac and Guelleh – agreed to ask the International Court to intervene, because they wanted to compel the French legal authorities to give a copy of the criminal file to Djibouti. Last September the French [...]
Kosovo (Serbia): The challenge to fix a failed UN justice mission, Amnesty International, January 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The extortion trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed resumed Wednesday in Dhaka, after the Bangladesh Supreme Court last week rejected Hasina's appeal of the proceedings . Hasina had argued that she could not be tried under the current state of emergency rules because the alleged crimes occurred before the state of emergency [...]
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Wednesday that he would begin a hunger strike to protest denial of medical treatment to Vasily Aleksanian , an imprisoned former executive and lawyer at the now-defunct Yukos oil company, who has AIDS. Khodorkovsky said officials were denying medical treatment to Aleksanian, whose health is deteriorating, to coerce [...]
Iran's chief judge issued a ban Wednesday against all public executions not specially permitted by the head of the judiciary. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi also banned the publication of pictures and videos of executions and ordered state prosecutors to enforce the bans. Commentators said that Shahroudi probably wants to remove executions from the public eye [...]
The International Judges and Prosecutors Programme of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has failed to meet international standards to ensure fair trials, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International . The report blamed "flaws in the concept, limited resources and the low priority that international justice has been given" for [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a controversial trial court judgment in favor of a plaintiff class of cattle ranchers claiming that defendant meat-packing companies underpaid them based on erroneous price data provided by the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) . The class action plaintiffs filed suit under the [...]
