JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the recent ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on habeas-stripping under the Military Commissions Act was erroneous and is likely to be overturned by the US Supreme Court… Last week, in Boumediene v. Bush, [...]
A California state appeals court ruled Monday that the state's stem cell research program "suffers from no constitutional or other legal infirmity," leading the way for approximately $3 billion in grant money to be awarded to researchers. The Court of Appeal of the State of California First District upheld last year's lower court decision upholding [...]
A federal judge Monday refused to apply a 1851 maritime law that would have limited the possible damages for victims of the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash to $14.4 million. The city of New York argued that the law, which was written to encourage investments in shipbuilding, should be applied to limit the ship owner's [...]
Othman and Secretary of State for the Home Department, Special Immigration Appeals Commission, February 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The governors of five western US states signed an agreement Monday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases , a cause of global warming . During the winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) , the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish the Western [...]
His Excellency Nabi Sensoy, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey : "House Resolution 106 on Armenian genocide allegations was introduced by five Representatives on January 30, 2007 at the 110th Congress 1st Session. The phrasing of the resolution implies acceptance, as an established fact, of the existence of the 'genocide' and its scale, a matter [...]
Two high-ranking Kurdish politicians were each sentenced to a year and a half in prison Monday by a Turkish court for distributing Kurdish-language party materials praising imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan . Ahmet Turk and Aysel Tugluk, president and vice-president of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) , received one year sentences for distributing [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Scott v. Harris , 05-1631 , where the court must decide whether a police officer violated a fleeing suspect's constitutional rights by using deadly force when he bumped his police car into the suspect's car to end a high speed chase. Victor Harris was pursued by [...]
Bosnian BiH presidency member Haris Silajdzic on Monday called for an amendment to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) constitution that would end the country's division into ethnic mini-states and create a unified nation. Silajdzic's proposal was a reaction to Monday's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling in Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro . [...]
US District Judge Benson Legg Monday suspended a requirement that the Maryland Attorney General submit proposals for using medical professionals to conduct lethal injections until such time as the controversy over the status of the state's capital punishment is resolved. Maryland death row inmate Vernon Evans, Jr. had initially challenged the constitutionality of lethal injections, [...]
