President Bush Wednesday urged Congress to pass the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 , promoting genetic testing for disease by making genetic discrimination illegal. In a speech at the National Institutes of Health , Bush said "If a person is willing to share his or her genetic information, it is important that that information [...]
US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas is expected to plead guilty during a Thursday court hearing to unpremeditated murder charges stemming from the alleged murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania . Awad was allegedly shot and killed by eight servicemen who allegedly left Awad's body by the side of the road with a [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that while the timing of the White House climbdown on court supervision of its warrantless surveillance activities may be explained by Democratic dominance of the new Congress, questions remain as to why the administration previously believed the FISA process inadequate, and [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he is concerned about the status of ongoing discussions between the UN and Lebanon on the proposed UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. Ban said : It is important that the Security Council has decided to [...]
The "no-fly" terrorist watch list now used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is being redrafted and will likely be cut in half, according to testimony given by TSA Administrator Kip Hawley during a Wednesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing. Hawley said that "To assure the accuracy of the No-Fly list itself, we will shortly conclude [...]
Retail Industry Leaders Association v. James D. Fielder, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, January 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act requiring Wal-Mart to spend the equivalent of eight percent of each individual store's payroll on employee health insurance. In a 2-1 decision, [...]
Walter Forbes, former Chairman of Cendant Corp. , the huge New York-based company that owns Ramada, Howard Johnson, Avis, Coldwell Banker and Century 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison pursuant to a October 2006 conviction arising from a multi-billion dollar accounting fraud in the 1990s. Forbes was found guilty [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Wednesday that three former Croatian generals will begin their war crimes trial at The Hague in May. Ante Gotovina , Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac have all pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity and war crimes in connection with the killing of Croatian Serb [...]
European Commission investigators have again asked EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes to formally charge computer chip maker Intel with antitrust violations, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday. In October, investigators first announced that they had gathered enough evidence to prosecute Intel on antitrust charges, and brought their information to Kroes, but an internal [...]
