Jaafar al-Mussawi, chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity, said Sunday that the trial verdict could once again be delayed. The Iraqi High Tribunal had postponed the original October 16 verdict until at least November 5, but could now delay the announcement of the verdict for an additional two weeks. [...]
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR) has been violating a US Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) direction on classifying proprietary data by claiming protection for information normally in the public sphere, according to a report issued Friday by Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen Jr. . Bowen wrote: The routine use [...]
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR) has been violating a US Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) direction on classifying proprietary data by claiming protection for information normally in the public sphere, according to a report issued Friday by Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen Jr. . Bowen wrote: The routine use [...]
Weinstein v. USAF, US District Court for the District of New Mexico, October 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Cobb v. Thurman, District Court of Appeal, First District, State of Florida, October 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A two-day referendum on a proposed new Serbian constitution which includes a controversial preamble asserting Serbia's ongoing claim to Kosovo got underway on Saturday, but only a small number of voters turned out in its early stages. The Serbian Election Commission announced Saturday evening that 17.81% of eligible voters had cast their ballots by 8 [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Friday withdrew a three-year-old lawsuit challenging Section 215 of the Patriot Act . Congressional amendment of the Act in March 2006 was cited as the reason for dropping the suit. Before amendment, Section 215 provided that federal agents, empowered by an order from a secret court, can access personal [...]
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Iraqi-American Mohammed Munaf had to be given ten days to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court and then the high court had to be accorded time to rule on that before the US military can legally transfer him to Iraqi custody and likely [...]
Former White House official David Safavian , convicted in June of lying and obstructing justice in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, received an 18-month prison sentence Friday. In January, Abramoff pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from a 2000 casino purchase and was sentenced to nearly six years in prison . [...]
A Florida appeals court overturned a lower court ruling Friday and granted state election officials permission to post polling area signs telling voters that ballots cast for Mark Foley would count as votes for his Republican replacement candidate. Foley's name appears on the ballot because it was too late to take his name off when [...]
