Former Malaysian Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim told a Royal Commission inquiry panel Monday that a December 2001 video that appears to show prominent Malaysian lawyer VK Lingam brokering Halim's appointment to become chief justice is a fabrication. Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who released the first part of the video in [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that in the name of the "war of terror," NATO forces in Afghanistan are committing genocide by systematically hunting down and destroying the Taliban, a puritanical Islamic group, contrary to the terms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime [...]
US President George W. Bush signed an executive order Tuesday implementing promises on earmarks made in his final State of the Union address delivered Monday. Executive Order 13457 commands heads of federal agencies to take "all necessary steps" to ignore earmarks that are not explicitly written into law. The policy portion of the order reads: [...]
US President George W. Bush said in Monday evening's State of Union address that he would issue an executive order Tuesday directing the federal government to ignore any future earmarks included in legislation that are not explicitly voted on by Congress, and that if Congress does not reduce the level of earmarks by 50 percent [...]
State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush, January 28, 2008. Read the full text of the address. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Alleged French "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel was released on bail Monday after French judges filed preliminary charges of "breach of trust," "falsifying and using falsified documents," and "breaching IT access codes" against him relating to $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades he made while working for French bank Societe Generale . The judges refused a [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a motion for a preliminary injunction Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to prevent Cuyahoga County, Ohio from conducting any election using a paper balloting system. The motion comes in a lawsuit filed earlier this month against Secretary of State of [...]
Arizona Life Coalition, Inc., v. Stacey Stanton, et. al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 28, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US District Judge Andrew Hanen of the US Southern District of Texas Monday released a Friday order directing 10 property owners in Cameron County, Texas to provide the federal government access to their land for 180 days so it can begin surveying for a 670-mile fence along the US-Mexico border . The federal government had [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Monday that Arizona residents should be able to purchase specialty license plates bearing the slogan "Choose Life." The Ninth Circuit held that the Arizona License Plate Commission violated the First Amendment free speech rights of the Arizona Life Coalition when it refused [...]
