The governor of Texas signed an executive order Friday making that state the first to require that girls be vaccinated for human papilloma virus (HPV) , which is the primary cause of cervical cancer. Gov. Rick Perry's order , which directs the state Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate rules mandating the vaccinations [...]
The UN Working Group of Experts on People of Africa Descent Friday called for a global ban on racial profiling at the conclusion of its annual 5-day session . The group urged "states to clearly define and adopt explicit legislative provisions banning racial profiling," a practice which European expert Joe Frans described as being "widespread, [...]
Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the US Marine defense coordinator for the western US, told the Associated Press Friday that his paralegal, Sgt. Heather Cerveny, has been accused of having made a false statement by Army Col. Richard Basset. Bassett was ordered to investigate alleged abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay after Cerveny provided a two-page [...]
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled Friday that people with serious mental illnesses may be permitted to commit physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions. The decision recognized "that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can cause similar suffering as a physical " and extended Switzerland's current physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill for such patients. [...]
Jonathan Hafetz : "The al-Marri case raises critical issues in defining the limits of executive detention power. The government not claims the right to indefinitely detain without charge individuals arrested the United States but also asserts that non-citizens living in this country do not even have the right to challenge their detention by habeas corpus [...]
The US military announced Friday it has drafted new charges against three high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees. Col. Morris Davis (USAF) , chief prosecutor for the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, said that the new charges against Australian David Hicks , Canadian Omar Khadr , and Yemeni Salim Ahmed Hamdan included murder, attempted murder, [...]
In re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation, US District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr., US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, February 2, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
National Pride at Work, Inc. v. Governor of Michigan, Michigan Court of Appeals, February 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US Defense Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson resigned Friday in the aftermath of a backlash to remarks he made in a radio interview last month criticizing lawyers at top US law firms for representing Guantanamo detainees pro bono. A Defense Department spokesman said Stimson was not asked to leave, but [...]
A federal judge ruled Friday that the US Army Corps of Engineers can be sued by victims of Hurricane Katrina flood damage who allege the Corps ignored warnings that the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) contained defects that exacerbated the flooding. In his opinion denying the Corps' motion to dismiss, Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. of [...]
