US President George W. Bush on Tuesday authorized the US Navy to continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the coast of southern California despite a November 2007 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the Navy should limit its use of high-powered sonar . Bush exempted the [...]
The White House admitted late Tuesday that it had recycled its back-up computer tapes of e-mails prior to October 2003. US Magistrate Judge John Facciola ordered the White House earlier this month to report whether e-mails deleted from its servers in fact existed on back-up tapes. White House Office of Administration Chief Information Officer Theresa [...]
Supporters of Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , fought with police Wednesday during demonstrations staged across the country over the disputed re-election of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki . At least two protesters were killed and another half dozen injured as police tried to disperse the demonstrations by firing tear gas and [...]
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Wednesday, including New York Board of Elections v. Torres , where the Court upheld New York's procedure for selecting state trial judges. In New York, judicial candidates are selected through nominations at political conventions rather than through primaries, a process which was found unconstitutional by [...]
Additional charges, including attempted murder, were filed Tuesday against the alleged plotters of an attack on Fort Dix . The US Attorney for New Jersey declined to say why the attempted murder charge was added, but a grand jury found that there was sufficient evidence to allow the charges. In addition, the indictment accuses the [...]
US District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled Tuesday that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages to families of seven Americans who died in the 1989 bombing of French passenger jet UTA Flight 772 , which killed all 170 people on board. Kennedy ruled last year in Pugh [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury of the Mekelle University Law Faculty in Mek'ele, Ethiopia, says that although the vast majority of Ethiopians publicly denounce H.R. 2003, the so-called Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act now going through Congress that links nonessential US assistance to fulfillment of various human rights obligations, the spirit of the bill is [...]
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging him to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects . In the letter, Conyers wrote that: Justice Department regulations [...]
Bringing criminal charges against Blackwater employees for the September 16 killings of 14 Iraqi civilians in West Baghdad would require surmounting numerous legal hurdles, US Department of Justice officials told Congress during a private meeting in December, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The meeting, which was held after a US federal grand jury opened [...]
Ross Ray QC : "David Hicks may have been released from prison on 29 December, but he is not a free man. Although it has not been alleged, let alone proven, that Hicks has committed any offence under Australian law, he is now subject to an interim control order issued under the Commonwealth Criminal Code. [...]
