Ohio absentee voters must continue to show proof of ID when applying for an absentee ballot, but absentee ballots already obtained without ID will still be counted after a settlement was reached Wednesday between the state and groups opposed to Ohio's voter ID law . The settlement, reached in a federal lawsuit challenging the Ohio [...]
UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas on Thursday warned that Britain is becoming a "surveillance society" , where the daily lives of citizens are increasingly monitored and privacy is being gradually – if often imperceptibly – eroded. He said governmental, commercial and even private surveillance activities, however ostensibly benign, may have serious social side-effects: nseen, uncontrolled [...]
The retrial of two British National Party (BNP) officials on charges of inciting racial hatred began Wednesday in the UK, with hundreds of supporters protesting outside the Leeds Crown Court. BNP leader Nick Griffin and senior aide Mark Collett face two race hate charges based on speeches in West Yorkshire in 2004, taped by the [...]
Thai interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud Thursday promised to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Speaking to Muslim leaders in the southern Pattani province, Surayud apologized for the former government's crackdown on an Islamic insurgency in the country's southern region and said the government will [...]
The United States is violating its universal human rights obligations by its failure to protect millions of illegal immigrant workers from exploitation and discrimination in the workplace, according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Wednesday. The petition was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Employment Law [...]
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has refused to rule on whether the European Constitution conforms with the German Constitution until a final decision on its ratification has been made. The German parliament ratified the document last year, but German President Horst Koehler refused to approve the ratification until the court issued its decision in the case, [...]
Lawyers representing detainees held in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare a portion of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) unconstitutional. A key provision in the act, which was signed into law by US President George Bush last [...]
US Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez retired from the military Wednesday saying he was "forced" to leave because of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal which occurred during his tenure as the commander of all US forces in Iraq. In an interview with the McAllen, Texas Monitor, Sanchez, who served in the Army for 33 years, [...]
Lozano v. City of Hazelton, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, October 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Petition Under Section 115, US Clean Air Act, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, November 1, 2006 . Read the full text of the petition. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
