The Jewish organization Kahane Chai was properly designated as a terrorist organization by the US Department of State in 1997 and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003, a federal appeals court held Tuesday. In 2003, Powell also decided that 20 other organizations were aliases for Kahane Chai, including the website Kahane.org. The group [...]

The government of the Georgian Republic on Tuesday publicly accused Russia of inhuman treatment and committing "gross violations" of international standards while rounding up Georgian nationals for deportation. One Georgian man died at the Moscow airport from an asthma attack after allegedly being denied medical care during five days of detention, according to the Georgian [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist David Harris of the University of Toledo College of Law says that despite calls from some quarters for more aggressive immigration control across the United States, local police want nothing to do with immigration enforcement, and they're right…. As we approach the midterm elections, illegal immigration remains one of the hottest issues [...]

A federal judge on Tuesday permitted a lawsuit, filed on behalf of 3,000 emergency workers who allege health problems resulting from the cleanup of the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center site, to proceed beyond the summary judgment stage against the city of New York, the Port Authority, New Jersey, and hundreds of [...]

Hate Crime Statistics 2005, Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

United States v. Lay, US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, October 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling dismissing the indictment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A European Parliament delegation met with Romanian lawmaker Norica Nicolai on Tuesday as part of its ongoing investigation into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) held terror suspects in secret prisons throughout eastern Europe as part of its rendition program . Nicolai, who led Romania's investigation into CIA flights in the country, repeated denials [...]

An independent United Nations commission released a report on Tuesday calling for criminal investigations into the former prime minister of East Timor , Mari Alkatiri and four other former government officials in relation to armed confrontations between the government and military that left 37 dead earlier this year. The report claims to have found no [...]

The nephew of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began a sit-in in front of Egypt's parliament on Tuesday to protest his upcoming military trial for implicating the Egyptian army in his uncle's assassination 25 years ago . Talat al-Sadat declared his intent to boycott his trial on Wednesday, claiming his right to a defense team [...]

Dr. Lester M. Crawford , former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , pleaded guilty to charges of conflict of interest and false writing at his arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon in front of US Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson. Both crimes are misdemeanors and carry a combined maximum penalty of 2 years in [...]