Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to 37 counts of war crimes, including murder, persecution, and rape. Haradinaj, whose trial is scheduled to begin Monday , was a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army , the ethnic Albanian guerrilla force [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday criticized a US federal appeals court ruling supporting Congressional legislation denying "enemy combatants" the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. In a press conference Wednesday, Arbour expressed concern at "insufficient judicial supervision," saying: I hope we will see the American judicial system rise to [...]
US Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and 78 other House of Representatives members introduced a bill Wednesday that would crack down on gasoline price gouging by instituting harsh criminal and civil penalties on oil and gas corporations and on individuals. The bill would permit the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate alleged price gouging in the [...]
An Oklahoma State House of Representatives committee approved a strict immigration bill on Wednesday for a full vote in the Oklahoma House. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 seeks to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining state identification, and would require all state and local agencies to verify citizenship status of applicants before [...]
Attorneys for US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) on Wednesday requested the return of the materials seized from the congressman's office during an 18-hour raid in May 2006 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of an investigation into bribery allegations. Jefferson's defense team has argued that the search violated constitutional separation of powers [...]
An Egyptian judge on Wednesday upheld a prosecutor's decision to freeze the assets of 29 financiers for the Muslim Brotherhood . The Brotherhood is the largest Islamic group in Egypt and, while it is considered to be illegal, the group currently holds 88 seats in the Egyptian Parliament and is believed to have tens of [...]
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced a settlement Wednesday in the case against the Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) for violating campaign finance laws during the 2004 election cycle. The conciliation agreement indicates that PFA-VF will pay a $750,000 fine, the third largest fine in FEC history, and that PFA-VF agreed to register as [...]
Lawmakers in Connecticut's House of Representatives have introduced a health care reform bill aimed at providing coverage to the state's uninsured. The initiative introduced Tuesday positions Connecticut within the growing ranks of states that have recently proposed health care reform plans for their poor and uninsured residents. Massachusetts became the first state to require health [...]
Whorton v. Bockting, US Supreme Court, February 28, 2007 . Read the Court's unanimous opinion per Justice Alito. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
DKT International, Inc. v. US Agency for International Development, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, February 28, 2007 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
