Nearly two-thirds of Canadians support having judges elected to the bench, the Globe and Mail reported Monday. According to a poll conducted by Globe and CTV, 63 percent of the respondents favored electing judges, with 24 percent strongly endorsing the idea. Support for the idea was strongest in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec. The [...]
Jury selection was completed Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for the second federal lawsuit to go to trial involving Louisiana homeowners affected by the Hurricane Katrina disaster . Homeowners Robert and Merryl Weiss are suing Allstate insurance company for bad faith, alleging that the insurance carrier did not [...]
The US soldier responsible for the death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq in March 2005 told the New York Post Monday that he fired on Calipari's vehicle in self-defense. Calipari was shot to death by Spc. Mario Lozano while driving to the Baghdad airport after securing the release of Italian journalist Giuliana [...]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not consider the full archives from the war crimes tribunal at The Hague in making its finding that Serbia did not commit genocide during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and was not liable for damages, instead relying on material in the court's public record that had been censored by [...]
Israel is reviewing the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Palestinian militants have demanded freed in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , Israeli officials said Sunday. Shalit was captured in Gaza on June 25, and his detention helped spark the latest round of violence in the region over the summer. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) only prosecuted about two percent of the individuals arrested on suspicion of illegally entering the country along the US-Mexico border during a five-year period, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal figures on arrests and prosecutions released Monday. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University collected the [...]
Nearly 1,000 protesters continued demonstrations Monday outside the parliament building in central Kiev as the Constitutional Court of Ukraine prepared to hear a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and leaders of the Ukrainian Parliament challenging the April 2 decree by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko calling for the dissolution of [...]
The government of Thailand said Monday it will continue to block access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube until Google , YouTube's owner, agrees to remove video clips deemed offensive to the country's monarch. Thailand originally banned access to YouTube and several other websites April 4. The YouTube ban resulted from a video depicting King [...]
More than a dozen prisoners at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay are being subjected to daily force-feedings as a result of a long-term hunger strike, the New York Times reported Monday, the largest such number since the beginning of 2006. Lawyers for the 13 detainees on hunger strike blame the harsh conditions of [...]
Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich said Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should consider resigning in the wake of his role in the firings of eight US Attorneys . With his criticism of Gonzales' judgment, Gingrich joins a growing group of Republicans who have voiced displeasure with how the attorney [...]
