Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a briefing paper for the European Union (EU) released Thursday that the United Nations had "tarnished its reputation and undermined its legitimacy" by failing to hold individuals in the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) accountable for human rights violations committed by [...]
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Thursday, including the consolidated cases of Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Washington v. Washington Education Association , where the Court held that states do not violate the First Amendment by barring a labor union from utilizing non-union worker's dues for political purposes if the [...]
An Indonesian police spokesman Wednesday confirmed the weekend arrest of leading terrorist suspect Abu Dujana Wednesday, saying that Dujana was arrested with seven other suspects in a raid that "finished" off the main body of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) . Dujana, who has successfully evaded Indonesian authorities since the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Wednesday published new draft guidelines concerning the use of national security letters (NSL) to correct privacy violations revealed in March by a Department of Justice review. The new guidelines, which enter into effect immediately, require FBI agents to identify the specific information being requested and justify its necessity pursuant [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against federal immigration officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the San Diego Correctional Facility (SDCF), and the Division of Immigration Health Services (DIHS) , seeking injunctive and declaratory relief on behalf of immigration detainees who allege that inadequate medical and mental [...]
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: Outbursts of communal violence are common in India. There are Maoist insurgents in the jungles. There are 23 different separatist militias in the eastern hill states. And as I reported in prior weeks, agitated Sikhs have been violently protesting in the northwest and rural dwellers in West [...]
The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the world Tuesday. Although Algeria, Bahrain, Burma, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, [...]
The New Jersey Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that for the state to constitutionally take private property, it must show that the property is blighted. The high court's unanimous ruling eliminates the use of eminent domain to take property that is merely "not fully productive." In Gallenthin Realty Development, Inc. v. Borough of Paulsboro, the town [...]
A joint report delivered to President George W. Bush Wednesday by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Education, and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on the ability of state and local officials to prevent community violence – including school shootings – has found that educational, health, and law [...]
Congressional investigators Wednesday issued subpoenas for former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former White House Political Director Sara Taylor in their ongoing probe of the US Attorney firing scandal . US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued the subpoena for Miers, while Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued the subpoena for [...]
