US v. Islamic American Relief Agency et al., United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, January 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The number of political prisoners in Cuba has decreased from 283 at the end of 2006 to to 234 at the end of 2007, but human rights abuses continue in the communist Caribbean state, according to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) Wednesday. The CCDHRN, led by Cuban human rights activist [...]

Declaration of Theresa Payton, filed in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the declaration . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Mark Deli Siljander , a former Republican US congressman from Michigan and US representative to the United Nations, was indicted Wednesday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and forfeiture. The charges stem from Siljander's association with the now defunct charity Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which allegedly funneled funds to [...]

Spanish National Court judge Santiago Pedraz said Wednesday he will switch the focus of his investigation into genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity in Guatemala's 36-year civil war towards obtaining witness testimony in light of recent setbacks. The decision came after a Guatemalan court ruled in December that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and [...]

New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Wednesday that finding and prosecuting Balkan war crimes suspects will be a top priority under his leadership. Brammertz called on the states of the former Yugoslavia to cooperate in working toward the arrest of Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan [...]

The Supreme Court of France Wednesday overturned a November 2007 ruling by the Court of Appeal of Paris that approved the transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , finding that the lower court had committed several procedural errors. The case will now be sent [...]

A federal judge in San Francisco sentenced former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes Wednesday to 21 months in prison and imposed a $15 million fine for backdating stock options . Judge Charles Breyer stayed the sentence pending an appeal. A federal jury found Reyes guilty in August 2007 of conspiracy, securities fraud, lying to [...]

US District Court Judge Alia Moses Ludlum of the Western District of Texas has ordered the City of Eagle Pass, Texas to temporarily turn over 233 acres of its land to the federal government so it can begin construction of a 670-mile fence on the border between the US and Mexico. Ludlum's ruling came in [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics , 06-937 , a patent infringement case on whether a patent holder's rights may be exhausted through certain license agreements. LG Electronics holds a patent on certain computer components, but had an agreement with Intel Corp. that let Intel manufacture those [...]