Former US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing , a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq, was released Saturday from a military prison where he was serving a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to going absent without leave for 14 months. Clousing was released 15 days early for good conduct and [...]
A federal appeals court Friday suspended a November order by US District Judge Richard Leon requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reinstate certain housing payments to Hurricane Katrina victims. The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the order in response to FEMA's request to allow the agency to delay action on the [...]
The UN Security Council voted 15-0 Saturday to impose its first sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past an August 31 deadline imposed by Security Council Resolution 1696 . In unanimously adopting Resolution 1737 the Council cited reports submitted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the August 31 deadline as well [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will enlist the help of UN peacekeepers in arresting Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony , according to a Reuters report Saturday. A document dated December 8 posted on the ICC website reveals that ICC Chief Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo has turned to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) to help [...]
Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian aid while simultaneously enriching the Saddam Hussein regime. French bank BNP Paribas and the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) face [...]
Sixteen Saudis and a Bangladeshi man repatriated from Guantanamo Bay earlier this week to their home countries are being detained by their governments. Saudi Arabian authorities say they are holding their nationals in order to investigate whether they have ties to terrorist groups . Meanwhile Mubarak Hussain Bin Abul Hashem , a Bangladeshi citizen, is [...]
Three Texas landlords filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of strict measures against illegal immigrants passed last month in their Dallas suburb . The defendants in the federal court action are the city of Farmers Branch and key members of the city's government, including the mayor, the city council, and the city's building inspector. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says the disparate charges brought against US Marine Corps officers and enlisted men in connection with the killings of Iraqi civilians at Haditha manifest a double standard of criminal liability that should not and need not exist… The US Marine Corps has announced criminal [...]
In re: The Exxon Valdez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Heiser v. Islamic Republic of Iran, US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
